US 70, Union Valley Segment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Lonoke County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. N and S of US 70 form the S28/S29 boundary lin R9W W to S26/S27 boundary line R10W, Union Valley, 72142
When was it listed? September 2004
Category. structure
Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
Township. Pulaski township
National Register reference number. 04001040 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of US 70, Union Valley Segment between 1999 and 2014, burning about 319 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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 2006	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2004	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2004	Debris and open burning	77 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	73 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lonoke 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
Dortch Plantation (Boundary Increase)	3.6 miles	1979
Dortch Plantation	3.9 miles	1975
Ashley-Alexander House	5.7 miles	1976
Morris House	6.4 miles	2019
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana Oil Depot	6.5 miles	2023
W. P. Fletcher House	6.8 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001040 in Record Group 79.
Lonoke County	All 32 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.