Hawks Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Hawks Schoolhouse is a historic school building in rural western Perry County, Arkansas. It is located on the south side of County Road 7, in the easternmost section of Ouachita National Forest, near the hamlet of Ava.”
Wikipedia article Hawks Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rd. 7, Ava, 72857
When was it listed? January 2002
Category. building
Township. Tyler township
National Register reference number. 01001528 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Hawks Schoolhouse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 527 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
12 September 2010	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	HORNET
4 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	BRUSH CREEK
30 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	GLENHAVEN
2 August 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BLYTHE #-1
16 August 2006	Natural	7.5 acres	Ouachita National Forest	COVE MOUNTAIN #1

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hawks Schoolhouse: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Beard Area	Silica	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ava, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2022	Hail	Ava	-	Ping pong ball sized hail was reported about a mile south of Nimrod Lake.

Every storm recorded in Perry County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
South Fourche LaFave River Bridge	5.5 miles	2004
Hollis Country Store	5.6 miles	2002
Fourche LaFave River Bridge	6.6 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001528 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perry County	All 15 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.