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Photograph of Menifee High School Gymnasium
Photograph by Cid.williams, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Menifee High School Gymnasium

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Menifee High School Gymnasium is a historic school building at North Park and East Mustang Streets in Menifee, Arkansas. It is a single-story frame structure, its exterior finished in uncoursed fieldstone veneer.”

Wikipedia article Menifee High School Gymnasium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Conway 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of N. Park St. and E. Mustang St., Menifee, 72107
  • When was it listed? June 2002
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
  • Township. Howard township
  • National Register reference number. 02000601 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

61 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Menifee High School Gymnasium between 1997 and 2020, burning about 837 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Conway County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Menifee High School Gymnasium: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Toadsuck Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Conway County

Storms near this property

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Menifee, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2008Flash FloodMenifee$150,000Flooding occurred across the county. Arkansas Highways 9, 92 and 95 had water over them. Arkansas Highway 124 north of Arkansas Highway 95, Friar Bridge Road, Union Chapel Road, Bostain Loop, Turkey Pond Loop, Bald Knob Road, Solgohachia Road, and Shaw Bridge Road were all closed. Arkansas Highway 287 two miles south of Arkansas Highway 95 was closed due to high water.
December 2009FloodMenifee$75,000Heavy rain caused some low-lying areas to be flooded. Some roads were closed temporarily.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMenifee$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2009Flash FloodMenifee$10,000Mill Island Road in Plumerville, Bell Mountain Road in Menifee, Portland Road in Plumerville, Cherokee Road in Morrilton, and Willow Bend Road in Morrilton were closed due to flooding.
April 2016FloodMenifee-Four inches of water was flowing over Highway 64 in Menifee from heavy rain.
November 2003HailMenifee-no account filed
May 1996HailMenifee-no account filed
March 1995HailMenifee-no account filed
September 1993HailMenifee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conway 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

6 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
US 64, Menifee Segment, Old0.4 miles2006
Highway A-1 Bridge4.6 miles2021
Plumerville School Building5.0 miles1992
Stuckey's (Plumerville)5.4 miles2022
Plummer's Station5.5 miles1975
Sims Hotel5.5 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000601 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Conway CountyAll 50 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.