Selma Rosenwald School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Selma Rosenwald School is a historic school building, just south of US Route 278 on the Selma-Collins Road in Selma, Arkansas. Built in 1924 with funds provided by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, it is the only surviving Rosenwald School in Drew County.”
Wikipedia article Selma Rosenwald School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Drew County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 sitess, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Selma-Collins Rd., approx. 0.25 mi. S of US 278, Selma, 71670
When was it listed? March 2006
Category. building
Township. Franklin township
National Register reference number. 06000069 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

34 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Selma Rosenwald School between 2001 and 2016, burning about 220 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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	12
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Selma Rosenwald School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Drew County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Selma, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2001	Tornado (F1)	Selma	1 hurt	A weak tornado was spawned in northeast Drew County about 6 miles southwest of Selma. The tornado moved quickly northeast, and badly damaged a home. A house trailer was also damaged. Roofs were damaged at a few homes, and many trees were uprooted or snapped. There was one minor injury reported. The tornado travelled about 5.5 miles before dissipating 2.7 miles west-northwest of Selma.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Selma	$5,000	Trees were down on Arkansas Highway 277.
November 1994	Hail	Selma	$5,000	Two car windshields were damaged by hail.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Selma	$3,000	A few trees were blown down along U.S. 278.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Selma	$3,000	Trees were blown down in the Dollar Hill area.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Selma	-	High water covered portions of AR Highway 135 near Pine Hill Blvd.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Selma	-	Trees were down along Arkansas Highway 293.
February 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Selma	-	A weak tornado touched down briefly in Drew County, southwest of the community of Selma. The only damage noted along the path of the tornado was a few dozen trees that were snapped off or uprooted.
February 1995	Hail	Selma	-	A funnel cloud was observed by the public.
April 2000	Flash Flood	Selma	-	no account filed
April 2000	Flash Flood	Selma	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Selma	-	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.

Listed places nearby

5 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
Selma Methodist Church	1.6 miles	1972
Old Piney Cemetery	5.1 miles	2022
Taylor Log House and Site	6.6 miles	1995
Tillar, Frank, Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South	6.9 miles	1997
Bank of Tillar	7.0 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000069 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.
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.