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Photograph of Old U.S. Route 71
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US 71, Greenland Segment, Old

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Route 71 is a U.S. route that runs from Krotz Springs, LA to the Fort Frances-International Falls International Bridge at the Canadian border. In Arkansas, the highway runs from the Louisiana state line near Doddridge to the Missouri state line near Bella Vista.”

Wikipedia article U.S. Route 71 in Arkansas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure · built in 1930.

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

The listing

  • Address. Washington Cty. Rd. 1194 (S. Main Ave.), Greenland, 72701
  • When was it listed? September 2004
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
  • Township. Greenland township
  • When was it built? 1930
  • National Register reference number. 04001041 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

34 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of US 71, Greenland Segment, Old between 1998 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
30 August 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2006Smoking10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2010Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of US 71, Greenland Segment, Old: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Dr.Ray Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
West Fork Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenland, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 8 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
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGreenland$100Thunderstorm winds blew a few large trees down.
February 2008HailGreenland-no account filed
May 2008HailGreenland-no account filed
June 2008HailGreenland-no account filed
May 2006HailGreenland-no account filed
April 2004HailGreenland-no account filed
March 1998HailGreenland-no account filed
June 1997HailGreenland-no account filed
April 1996HailGreenland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Fayetteville Fire Department Fire Station 31.8 miles2015
Benjamin Franklin Johnson II Homestead District2.8 miles2019
Johnson Barn2.9 miles1990
Rieff's Chapel Cemetery3.1 miles2021
Deepwood House4.3 miles2018
Mineral Springs Community Building4.4 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001041 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 160 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.