Bigelow Rosenwald School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Bigelow Rosenwald School, also known as Rosenwald Community Center, is a former Rosenwald School located in Toad Suck, about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bigelow, Perry County, Arkansas. Built in 1926, it is a single-story wood-frame building with vernacular Craftsman elements.”
Wikipedia article Bigelow Rosenwald School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 2004 · 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 AR 60 and Bethel AME Rd., Toad Suck, 72016
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. building
Township. Union township
Architect. Samuel L. Smith
National Register reference number. 04000491 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Bigelow Rosenwald School between 1997 and 2020, burning about 431 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	11
Arson/incendiarism	6
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2

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 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2000	Smoking	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 June 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

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 Bigelow Rosenwald School: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Toadsuck Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toad Suck, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 hail. 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
April 2004	Hail	Toad Suck	-	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

3 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
Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church, South	6.4 miles	1996
C.L. Sailor House	6.7 miles	1998
Houston Methodist Episcopal Church, South	7.8 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000491 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.