Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“The Murfreesboro Cities Service Station is a historic automotive service station on Arkansas Highway 26, facing the northeast side of the town square in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. It is a simple single-story brick building with a cross-gable roof and modest English Revival styling.”
Wikipedia article Murfreesboro Cities Service Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Pike County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
Township. Thompson township
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 03000400 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
62 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Murfreesboro Cities Service Station
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 283 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined
20
Debris and open burning
14
Arson/incendiarism
8
Natural
8
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Smoking
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
33 workings within 5 miles of Murfreesboro Cities Service Station: 26 unknowns, 4 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diamond, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Murfreesboro, the town this property stands in, in 60 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 31 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 7 heavy rain, 4 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.
Cooperative observer reported a total of 9.40 inches of rain has fallen for the duration of this event. 5.5 inches of rain fell since 7 am this morning.
Rain that fell on December 24th assured that 2009 would be the wettest year ever recorded in Murfreesboro. Total rainfall for the year was 88.31 inches, breaking the record of 85.01 inches set in 1973.
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.
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.
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