Revel General Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Revel General Store is a historic commercial building at the southwest corner of Arkansas Highway 260 and Woodruff County Road 17 in Revel, Arkansas. It is a small single-story vernacular wood-frame structure, finished in its original weatherboard siding, and sporting a false parapet in front of a gabled roof.”
Wikipedia article Revel General Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Woodruff County · listed in 2003 · 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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of AR 260 and Woodruff Cty Rd. 17, Revel, 72006
When was it listed? September 2003
Category. building
Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
Township. Cotton Plant township
National Register reference number. 03000952 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Revel General Store between 1992 and 2015, burning about 308 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Smoking	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
1 July 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2004	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	7.7 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	BLEIDT
4 April 2001	Natural	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	TRACT 224
27 March 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	NO. 1
23 March 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	HWY260#1

Every fire recorded in Woodruff County

Storms near this property

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Revel, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Revel	$5,000	Trees were blown down on Arkansas 33.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Revel	-	Large limbs were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Woodruff 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dr. John William Morris Clinic	5.0 miles	2009
McCrory Waterworks	5.0 miles	2007
McCrory Commercial Historic District	5.1 miles	2010
George Washington Carver High School Home Economics Building	5.8 miles	2004
Augusta Electrical Generating Plant	6.0 miles	2010
Jess Norman Post 166 American Legion Hut	6.0 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000952 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Woodruff County	All 17 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.
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.