Springfield to Fayetteville Road-Cross Hollow Segment
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“The Springfield to Fayetteville Road-Cross Hollow Segment is a 2-mile (3.2 km) section of a historic 19th-century road in Benton County, Arkansas. The road is now designated Old Wire Road, and the historic segment runs northward from its junction with County Road 620, northeast of Lowell.”
Wikipedia article Springfield to Fayetteville Road-Cross Hollow Segment, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure.
Also known as. Cherokee Trail of Tears MPS; Cherokee Trail of Tears MPS (Additional Documentation)
Township. Township 3
National Register reference number. 04001511 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
63 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Springfield to Fayetteville Road-Cross Hollow Segment
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,048 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 24 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/incendiarism
24
Debris and open burning
20
Natural
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Springfield to Fayetteville Road-Cross Hollow Segment: 2 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lowell, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 31 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Strong thunderstorm wind damaged homes, destroyed outbuildings, blew down power poles, and uprooted trees in a broad swath from near Lowell to several miles east of Lowell.
Strong thunderstorm wind severely damaged the roof of a mobile home, destroyed portable sheds, broke a large glass window of a business, damaged the roofs of homes, snapped large tree limbs, and blew down power lines.
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.
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.
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