Tucker School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Tucker School is a historic school building on Vandalsen Drive in Tucker, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of brick piers.”
Wikipedia article Tucker School (Tucker, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Vandalsen Dr., Tucker, 72168
When was it listed? June 2005
Category. building
Township. Dudley Lake township
National Register reference number. 05000538 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Tucker School between 2001 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 January 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tucker, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tucker	-	A tree was blown down on highway 15 near Tucker.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tucker	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a shed, a large tree and some power lines.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Tucker	-	A few trees were blown down.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Tucker	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Tucker	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Tucker	-	A portion of a shop building was blown off.
January 1999	Tornado (F1)	Tucker	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Tucker	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Tucker	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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

4 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
Island of Hope Chapel	2.6 miles	2024
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery	3.2 miles	2010
Sherrill Methodist Episcopal Church, South	3.3 miles	2002
Plum Bayou Homesteads	5.7 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000538 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 80 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.
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.