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Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot is a historic train station building on Old Arkansas Highway 9 in the hamlet of Sylamore, Arkansas. It is a rectangular wood-frame structure, covered with a hip roof, that has a projecting telegrapher's bay on one of its long sides.”

Wikipedia article Sylamore station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Izard 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. Old AR 9, Sylamore, 72560
  • When was it listed? December 2004
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Historic Railroad Depots of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. White River township
  • National Register reference number. 04001036 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

103 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,227 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 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/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
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 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGREEN
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsLONG
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsROSA
20 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Smokingunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBEAR
8 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1997Debris and open burning100 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot: 5 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allison Mine & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allison PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sylamore, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 30 injuries. 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
April 1996Tornado (F4)Sylamore2 killed, 30 hurt, $5,000,000no account filed
April 2008Flash FloodSylamore$25,000Arkansas Highway 9 between Newburg and Brockwell was flooded. Several county roads were flooded.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSylamore-Large tree limbs were downed.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindSylamore-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto a cabin.
June 1995HailSylamore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Mount Olive Cumberland Presbyterian Church3.7 miles2004
A. C. Jeffery Farmstead4.3 miles1994
Jeffery Cemetery5.0 miles1999
Boswell School7.0 miles1992
Sylvester Smith Farmstead7.4 miles1992
Vest Cemetery7.4 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001036 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Izard CountyAll 18 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.