Hollis Country Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Hollis Country Store is a historic general store on Arkansas Highway 7 in rural Perry County, Arkansas. It is located on the west side of AR 7 in the Ouachita National Forest, a short way north of the South Fourche LaFave River Bridge.”
Wikipedia article Hollis Country Store, 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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2125 AR 7 S, Hollis, 72857
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. building
Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
Township. Tyler township
National Register reference number. 02001598 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Hollis Country Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,450 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 31 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	31
Natural	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	6
Fireworks	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
9 September 1992	Natural	5.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	not named
3 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	GARRETT
28 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Ouachita National Forest	POWER LINE
15 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	NORTH JUNCTION FIRE
11 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.2 acres	Ouachita National Forest	SUGAR CREEK
8 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	CEDAR
7 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	SMALL SMOKE
7 August 2011	Natural	180 acres	Ouachita National Forest	FORKED MOUNTAIN

Every fire recorded in Perry 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 Hollis Country Store: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	T & T Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollis, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollis	-	A tree was downed on Highway 314 off of Highway 7.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Hollis	-	Water was over roadways in the area.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollis	-	Trees were reported down.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Hollis	-	Heavy rainfall flooded a portion of Highway 314 at Hollis.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollis	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs onto power lines.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollis	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees at Hollis.
May 2010	Hail	Hollis	-	no account filed
November 2003	Hail	Hollis	-	no account filed
February 2001	Hail	Hollis	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Hollis	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Hollis	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollis	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollis	-	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollis	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Hollis	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Hollis	-	no account filed

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

4 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	0.1 miles	2004
Wallace Bridge	5.4 miles	2008
Hawks Schoolhouse	5.6 miles	2002
Fourche LaFave River Bridge	5.8 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001598 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.