Old US 79, Kingsland Segment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Old US 79, Kingsland Segment is a rare drivable section of concrete highway built in 1938 near Kingsland, Arkansas. It is also one of a few surviving sections of the original alignment of U.S.”
Wikipedia article Old U.S. Route 79 (Kingsland, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Cleveland County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. Cty.Rd. 22 between US 79 & Kight Rd., Kingsland, 71652
When was it listed? September 2005
Category. structure
Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
Township. Kingsland township
National Register reference number. 05001067 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

62 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Old US 79, Kingsland Segment between 1999 and 2020, burning about 630 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
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
29 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Cleveland County

Storms near this property

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingsland, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
January 2012	Tornado (EF2)	Kingsland	$100,000	This tornado exited Dallas County north of the Fordyce airport and entered Cleveland County west-northwest of Kingsland. In Cleveland County, the tornado destroyed a church that had stood since 1852. A mobile home was destroyed, with a mattress hung up in a tree. Another mobile home had its roof taken off. Hundreds of trees were blown down. The tornado ended near the Saline River, in the Channings Ferry area.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$15,000	Numerous trees were down in Kingsland along U.S. Highway 79.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Kingsland	$5,000	Heavy rains damaged roads around Kingsland. Cross Road suffered substantial damage.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Multiple trees were blown across Arkansas Highway 8 around Moro Creek.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Trees were down at Kingsland.
April 2018	Flash Flood	Kingsland	-	Arkansas Hwy 189 was closed to due flash flooding.
March 2014	Hail	Kingsland	-	Hail up to golf ball size broke car windows.
August 2012	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	Rainfall measured 6.95 inches in 31 hours.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Power lines were down on U.S. Highway 79 outside of Kingsland.
September 2008	Heavy Rain	Kingsland	-	Approximately 9 inches of rain fell.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Kingsland	-	Water was reported over several roads. Flood waters covered parts of Cross Road north of Kingsland.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees along Highway 79.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Several large trees were knocked down.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Kingsland	-	Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding around Kingsland. Several county roads were flooded for a short period of time.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a number of trees and large limbs in and around Kingsland.
March 2014	Hail	Kingsland	-	no account filed
February 2009	Hail	Kingsland	-	no account filed
December 2002	Hail	Kingsland	-	no account filed
December 2002	Hail	Kingsland	-	no account filed
March 2001	Hail	Kingsland	-	no account filed
February 2000	Hail	Kingsland	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Kingsland	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Kingsland	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Kingsland	-	no account filed
October 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsland	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Kingsland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleveland 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

3 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
Magnolia Petroleum Company Filling Station	0.7 miles	2019
Marks' Mills Battlefield Park	6.2 miles	1970
Barnett-Attwood House	7.6 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001067 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cleveland County	All 15 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.