Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium Historic District

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium Historic District is a United States Historic District south of Booneville, Arkansas that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in October 2006. The district encompasses the former relocation center for Arkansans diagnosed with tuberculosis and an administration building built in the Art Deco style in 1909.”
Wikipedia article Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 2006 · category: District · built in 1909.

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

The listing

Address. East end of AR 116 S, Booneville, 72927
When was it listed? October 2006
Category. district
Township. Boone township
When was it built? 1909
National Register reference number. 06000414 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

99 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium Historic District between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,177 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 15 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	33
Debris and open burning	30
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	10

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
9 September 1999	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	GOLDEN CITY
2 September 2000	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2012	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

60 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Booneville, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 42 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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 1997	Tornado (F1)	Booneville	1 killed, 3 hurt, $250,000	no account filed
March 2009	Lightning	Booneville	1 hurt	A man was struck by lightning while on a drilling rig off of Ferguson Valley Road.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$300,000	The roof of a building was damaged and a window was blown out of a store. Trees, power lines, and power poles were knocked down. Trees fell on several residences and a barn.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$150,000	A metal roof was blown off a building housing the Arkansas Revenue Office and a medical clinic. Part of the brick facade of the building fell into the street. The bricks damaged some other businesses and vehicles.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$50,000	A metal building was damaged.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$50,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$20,000	Trees were blown down across Arkansas Highway 10 in and around Booneville.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$15,000	Trees and power lines were blown down south of Booneville.
January 2007	Flash Flood	Booneville	$11,000	A number of secondary roads throughout the county were flooded.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$10,000	Trees were blown down.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
October 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$5,000	Power lines were blown down.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
August 2009	Lightning	Booneville	$5,000	Lightning struck a home on Second Street, melting two attic wind turbines and starting a small fire.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some tree limbs and a television cable.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 2024	Heavy Rain	Booneville	-	A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.10 inches was measured at Booneville.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Multiple trees and powerlines were blown down in Booneville.
March 2023	Flash Flood	Booneville	-	The Petit Jean River at Booneville rose approximately 16 feet and came out of its banks near Booneville.
April 2021	Funnel Cloud	Booneville	-	A funnel cloud was spotted from the Mercy Hospital parking lot in Booneville, looking towards Chismville.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Booneville	-	Several roads were flooded in Booneville.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	A few trees were blown down near Hwy. 23, south of Booneville.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Booneville	-	Many county roads were underwater near the Petit Jean River.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Trees and power lines were down.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Trees were blown down across the highway in and near Booneville.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Power lines were blown down in Booneville across Highway 109 and Grove Street. The fire department was responding due to a fire in the trees.
November 2011	Funnel Cloud	Booneville	-	A law enforcement officer reported a rotating funnel cloud in the Glendale and Booneville areas.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	A tree was down on the north side of Booneville.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Booneville	-	Street flooding occurred on Arkansas Highway 10.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Trees were blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Trees were down.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Booneville	-	Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur in Booneville. Several streets were under water for a short period of time.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Booneville	-	A weak tornado touched down briefly over western Logan County. The only damage found was some large limbs torn off trees, mainly on ridge lines.
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Several buildings sustained roof damage from a severe thunderstorm that moved through Booneville.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Several trees were blown down.
November 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Trees down.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
May 1995	Hail	Booneville	-	Golf ball-size hail damaged two Highway Department vehicles.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
February 2009	Hail	Booneville	-	no account filed
February 2009	Hail	Booneville	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Booneville	-	no account filed
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
January 2002	Hail	Booneville	-	no account filed
January 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
December 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Booneville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Booneville	-	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Booneville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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

6 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
Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District	2.2 miles	1997
Farmers and Merchants Bank-Masonic Lodge	2.9 miles	1993
Bank of Booneville Building	2.9 miles	1978
Booneville Commercial Historic District	2.9 miles	2013
Booneville Methodist Episcopal Church South	3.0 miles	2011
Jack Creek Bathhouse	5.8 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000414 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 44 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.