Jerome Elementary School No. 22

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Jerome Elementary School No. 22 is a historic school building on North Louisiana Boulevard in Jerome, Arkansas. The single-story brick building was constructed in 1930, at a time when Jerome was a thriving logging and farming town.”
Wikipedia article Jerome Elementary School No. 22, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Drew County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. N. Louisiana Bvd., Jerome, 71638
When was it listed? September 2005
Category. building
Township. Bartholomew township
National Register reference number. 05001068 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Jerome Elementary School No. 22 between 2005 and 2006, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	2

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
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 December 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Storms near this property

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jerome, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
January 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Jerome	$100,000	The tornado struck a series of large industrial grain and feed silos and caused substantial damage. One of the silos had its foundation ripped out of the ground and it was bolted into concrete in several locations. The roof of another large silo was blown downwind at least a half mile and fell apart into pieces. Power poles were snapped and trees were snapped at the trunk or uprooted along this short path.
March 2016	Flash Flood	Jerome	$60,000	Emergency management reported that the crossing on highway 165 was washed out.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	$1,000	A tree was blown down, blocking Spillway Rd. near Lake Wallace.
March 2026	Hail	Jerome	-	Half-dollar sized hail fell in the town of Jerome.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	Multiple trees were blown down in Jerome.
April 2011	Hail	Jerome	-	The hail fell at Townsend Lake.
February 2008	Hail	Jerome	-	Hail covered the ground on Arkansas Highway 922.
February 2009	Hail	Jerome	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Jerome	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Jerome	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Drew 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001068 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Drew County	All 27 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.