Pottsville Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Pottsville Commercial Historic District is a small collection of early 20th-century commercial buildings located on East Ash Street in Pottsville, Arkansas. The district features the former Falls and Sinclair store, built in 1887, along with a row of three interconnected brick buildings: the Pottsville Citizen's Bank (1913), and the Shue and Pryor stores, both built in the 1920s.”
Wikipedia article Pottsville Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Pope County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 155,160,162 and 164 E. Ash St., Pottsville, 72858
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. district
District. District 2
National Register reference number. 04001510 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Pottsville Commercial Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
7 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2004	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2003	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Pottsville Commercial Historic District: 19 unknowns, 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bernice Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Black-Sands Deposit	Titanium	Occurrence
Dierks Crystal Area No 6	Silica	Past Producer
Shale Pit	Clay	Unknown
Shale Pit	Clay	Unknown
Shale Pit	Clay	Unknown
Cabot Sandstone Operations	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Ferguson Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
New Hope Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Pitts Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pope County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pottsville, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	$125,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed two poultry houses.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	$50,000	Metal roofing was removed from a row of businesses. Numerous trees were down or snapped.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a house.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	$30,000	Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	$25,000	Trees, power lines, and street signs were blown down.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	$10,000	Power lines were blown down.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	$5,000	Multiple tree limbs were downed with some damage to a roof.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	-	Large tree limb was blown down on West Ash Street in Pottsville.
January 2024	Hail	Pottsville	-	Quarter sized hail fell in the town of Pottsville, AR.
February 2023	Flash Flood	Pottsville	-	A mudslide was reported along AR State Hwy. 363 between Phillips Rd. and Interstate 40 in Pottsville.
June 2023	Hail	Pottsville	-	Golf ball sized hail fell near Worthen.
February 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	-	Trees and power lines were down in Pottsville.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	-	Power lines were down on Crow Mountain.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	-	Construction barrels were blown around on Interstate 40.
April 2004	Tornado (F1)	Pottsville	-	A weak tornado moved from Yell County into southern Pope County. The tornado tracked through the Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, and pushed over several trees. The tornado dissipated a little over 8 miles south of Pottsville.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
July 2014	Hail	Pottsville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Pottsville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	-	no account filed
February 1999	Tornado (F2)	Pottsville	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Pottsville	-	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Pottsville	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Pottsville	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Pottsville	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Pottsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Pottsville Dipping Vat	under 500 feet	2006
Pottsville Citizen's Bank	0.2 miles	2002
Potts Inn	0.3 miles	1970
Old South Restaurant	4.3 miles	1999
Wilson House	4.9 miles	1978
Russellville Public Library	5.1 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001510 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pope County	All 38 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.