Bates School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Bates School is a historic former school building at 1074 Bates School Road in Bates, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building with a hip roof and Colonial Revival styling.”
Wikipedia article Bates School (Bates, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 2006 · 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 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1074 Bates School Rd., Bates, 72958
When was it listed? February 2006
Category. building
District. District 3
National Register reference number. 06000081 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Bates School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,027 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 19 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2005	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	not named
27 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	43 acres	Ouachita National Forest	SAW FIRE
26 August 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this property

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bates, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bates	-	Numerous trees were reported down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bates	-	Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Bates	-	A weak tornado moved out of Le Flore County Oklahoma (Tulsa County Warning Area) and into Scott County Arkansas 3.5 miles west-southwest of Bates, near the Coaldale community. The tornado tracked to the southeast for about 2 miles before lifting. Damage along the track was minimal, just consisting of a few downed trees and large limbs that were twisted and broken.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Bates	-	A weak tornado moved from Le Flore County Oklahoma (Tulsa County Warning Area) into Scott County Arkansas about 3.5 miles west-southwest of Bates. The tornado moved to the northeast, downing a few small trees and snapping off large tree limbs. The tornado dissipated 2.2 miles east-northeast of Hon.
June 2006	Hail	Bates	-	no account filed
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bates	-	no account filed
November 2003	Hail	Bates	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Bates	-	no account filed
February 2000	Hail	Bates	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bates	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Bates	-	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bates	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Bates	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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 06000081 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Scott County	All 14 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.