Clinton Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Clinton Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic commercial center of Clinton, Arkansas. It encompasses a roughly triangular area, bounded by Main Street, Moss Street, and United States Route 65B, extending northwest along 65B as far as Oak Street.”
Wikipedia article Clinton Commercial Historic District (Clinton, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Van Buren County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Town Branch Creek and by US 65B, Clinton, 72031
When was it listed? May 2006
Category. district
Township. West Griggs township
National Register reference number. 06000410 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

83 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Clinton Commercial Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 684 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	32
Debris and open burning	30
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
26 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clinton Commercial Historic District: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Mitchell Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Van Buren County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this property

60 of 81 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clinton, the town this property stands in, in 81 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 40 thunderstorm wind, 30 hail, 7 flash flood, 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
August 2000	Lightning	Clinton	1 hurt	no account filed
January 2007	Flash Flood	Clinton	$542,000	Street flooding was reported near Clinton.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$100,000	Trees were down on Arkansas Highway 95. One tree fell on a garage. Power lines were down across Clinton and gas meters were torn off in the area.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$50,000	Several trees and large limbs were blown down in Clinton. Clinton Public Schools had a few trees down and damage to a couple of buildings, including a large pine tree on the Agricultural Department.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$50,000	Trees and power lines were down across Clinton.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$25,000	Trees and large limbs were blown down at Clinton and many other locations in Van Buren County.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$15,000	Multiple trees were downed in Clinton.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$15,000	Power poles were down in Clinton.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$1,000	Part of a fence was blown down, according to a photo on social media.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Many trees blown down, including several uprooted, in and around Clinton and across the county.
May 2025	Flash Flood	Clinton	-	Clinton Park and several nearby streets were under water.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Clinton	-	Multiple streets covered by high water south of Clinton in Cleburne county.
February 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Multiple trees were down in Clinton and several homes were without power.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	An empty semi truck was blown over on Highway 65B in Clinton with damage to at least one building in the same area. NWS storm survey concluded damage was caused by straight-line winds.
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Several large tree limbs were down near Choctaw.
March 2020	Hail	Clinton	-	One inch diameter hail was reported near the Clinton Airport.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	A powerline was down on Yellowjacket Ln.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Clinton	-	Water was reported over roads and they were being barricaded. Old Highway 9, Henderson Rd., and Silver Lock Rd. were barricaded.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Power lines were down near Highway 65 and Old Hwy. 9. The sheriff office lost power.
February 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Trees and power lines were down in Clinton. Pea size hail was also reported.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Limbs were blown down.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Trees were blown down along Hwy 16 in Clinton.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Clinton	-	Several homes and business were flooded in the town of Clinton, AR.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Clinton	-	Several roads in Clinton were closed due to high water.
November 2011	Heavy Rain	Clinton	-	The Clinton reporting station recorded the wettest November ever. Rainfall of 14.79 inches broke the record of 11.35 inches set in 1996.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Large limbs broke off of trees in the area.
June 2009	Hail	Clinton	-	Hail occurred at Holley Mountain Airpark.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	A number of large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees at Clinton.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Several large trees were blown down at Fairfield Bay.
November 2003	Flash Flood	Clinton	-	Heavy rains caused some street flooding to occur in Clinton. Several streets were closed due to high water for a brief period of time.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Clinton.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto a house, causing some roof damage.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and television antennas.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
April 1998	Tornado (F0)	Clinton	-	An F0 tornado touched downed about one half mile west of Clinton on Highway 16. A tree fell on a house with some roof damage noted. More trees were knocked down about 100 yards farther east, with some shingle damage to an outbuilding. About a mile northeast of the initial damage, a tree fell across a power line and blocked Highway 16. About a mile farther northeast, a large tree limb was found in the driveway of a home, with tree tops removed near the home. The damage was consistent with an F0 rating.
August 1997	Tornado (F0)	Clinton	-	An F0 tornado touched down very briefly about 3 miles east-northeast of Clinton. The only damage noted along the path of the tornado was a few trees that were knocked down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees onto power lines.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees.
May 2022	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
February 2019	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
February 2008	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
February 2001	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Clinton	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Van Buren County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1991
Joclin-Bradley-Bowling House	0.2 miles	2007
Walter Patterson Filling Station	0.3 miles	2001
Walter Patterson House	1.2 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000410 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Van Buren 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.
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.