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Photograph of Oak Grove Rosenwald School
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Oak Grove Rosenwald School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Oak Grove Rosenwald School is a historic school building on Oak Grove Road in Oak Grove, a small settlement in southeastern Sevier County, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, built in 1926 with financial assistance from the Rosenwald Fund.”

Wikipedia article Oak Grove Rosenwald School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Sevier 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. Oak Grove Rd., Oak Grove, 71846
  • When was it listed? May 2004
  • Category. building
  • Township. Paraclifta township
  • National Register reference number. 04000494 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove Rosenwald School between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,175 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 42 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/incendiarism42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Smoking2

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
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Arson/incendiarism45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Oak Grove Rosenwald School: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkStonePast Producer
McKeller Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sevier County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2013Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Trees were downed north of Ben Lomond or near the community of Oak Grove.
March 2008HailOak Grove-Hail fell 2 miles east of Lockesburg, Arkansas.

Every storm recorded in Sevier 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lockesburg High School Gymnasium5.8 miles2018
First United Methodist Church5.9 miles1994
Lockesburg Waterworks6.0 miles2007
De Queen & Eastern Railroad Overpass6.1 miles2023
Old US 71-Little River Approach6.2 miles2004
Little Cossatot River Bridge7.4 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000494 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sevier 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.