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Photograph of Earle High School
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Earle High School, Old

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Earle High School, located in Earle, Arkansas, United States is an accredited public high school and the sole institution of the Earle School District. It is one of the four public high schools in Crittenden County.”

Wikipedia article Earle High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Crittenden County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1909.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Ruth St., and High 2nd St. (US 64B), Earle, 72331
  • When was it listed? September 2003
  • Category. building
  • Township. Tyronza township
  • When was it built? 1909
  • National Register reference number. 03000956 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Earle High School, Old between 2004 and 2007, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 February 2004Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Earle High School, Old: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mauldin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this property

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Earle, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
February 1999Thunderstorm WindEarle1 hurt, $15,000Several trees and power poles were knocked down. One tree fell in the middle of a house injuring one person and trapping a second person in bed.
November 2002Tornado (F2)Earle$600,000The tornado moved into Crittenden county from Cross county and continued to move northeast. The tornado produced some damage near the town of Heafer. A mobile home and 2 farm shops were destroyed. A church and parsonage, three mobile homes and five houses were also damaged. The tornado then continued across the county and reached the town of Gilmore. Fourteen mobile homes were destroyed or suffered major damage. Nineteen houses and several cars were also damaged. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down across the county. The tornado eventually moved out of the county near Menesha and entered Mississippi county.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindEarle$25,000Several trees down on power lines. Shed blown over. Eighteen wheeler blown over on Highway 64 going into Earle.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindEarle$25,000A roof was blown off of a clinic. Several signs were knocked down. Several houses had trees on top of them with one house receiving major damage.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindEarle$10,000A mobile home was pushed off block piers due to straight-line winds.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindEarle$5,000One building had minor damage. Several trees were blown down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEarle$4,000Straight line winds knocked two trees down on a power line in Earle.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEarle$2,000A few trees and power lines were knocked down.
October 2009Flash FloodEarle$1,000A bridge along Highway 118 just north of Earle was flooded.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindEarle$1,000One large tree was knocked down.
December 1996Thunderstorm WindEarle$1,000no account filed
April 1998HailEarle$750no account filed
March 2005HailEarle$150no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindEarle$100Straight line winds blew a passenger side window out of a car in the western side of Earle.
May 1995HailEarle$100no account filed
July 2005HailEarle$10no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEarle-Damaged occurred across Earle. The roof was partially torn off the high school. Trees were uprooted and snapped. Power lines were knocked down across town. A large tree fell on a trailer and car.
June 2020HailEarle-Quarter size hail fell between Earle and Parkin.
March 2015HailEarle-Quarter size hail near Highways 64 and 149 in Earle.
October 2014HailEarle-Quarter to Golfball size hail fell in Earle.
September 2011HailEarle-Quarter size hail fell at the high school in Earle.
July 2009Flash FloodEarle-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Earle. Several roads were flooded.

Every storm recorded in Crittenden 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

2 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
Missouri Pacific Depot0.3 miles1986
George Berry Washington Memorial1.8 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000956 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crittenden CountyAll 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.
  • 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.