Arkansas Ordnance Plant Guard House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Arkansas Ordnance Plant Guard House is a historic military structure on the grounds of the Jacksonville Museum of Military History in Jacksonville, Arkansas. It is a square wood-frame structure measuring 9 by 9 by 12 feet, mounted on metal skids for ease of relocation.”
Wikipedia article Arkansas Ordnance Plant Guard House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 383 National Register listings published here for Pulaski 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 100 Veteran's Circle, Jacksonville
When was it listed? September 2006
Category. building
Township. Hill township
National Register reference number. 06000831 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Arkansas Ordnance Plant Guard House between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,590 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
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
2 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Arkansas Ordnance Plant Guard House: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold. 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
	Julius Hess	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold	Unknown
	Kellog Mine	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

60 of 100 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonville, the town this property stands in, in 100 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 51 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 10 flash flood, 3 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
September 2008	Flash Flood	Jacksonville	$200,000	A mobile home park in Jacksonville was flooded. Flooding occurred along U.S. Highway 67/167 between Jacksonville and Cabot, backing up traffic for miles.
May 1997	Tornado (F1)	Jacksonville	$200,000	An F1 tornado touched down about 4 miles west of Jacksonville. The tornado first damaged the roof of a building 1.5 miles east of Highway 107. Several trees were also blown down in the same area. The tornado lifted several times as it moved eastward towards Highway 167, downing a number of trees and power poles. The tornado then moved into the City of Jacksonville where several buildings sustained roof damage. One store in a local mall suffered heavy structural damage. The tornado later lifted about a half mile east of Highway 167.
October 2021	Flash Flood	Jacksonville	$75,000	Sandlewood Drive was flooded with two vehicles almost completely submerged.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	$75,000	Trees were blown down. One of the trees landed on a house and a car.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and power lines.
July 1998	Lightning	Jacksonville	$50,000	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	$25,000	A trained spotter measured a wind gust of 63 mph in Jacksonville. Much of the roof of a dry cleaning and alteration business was blown off.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	$15,000	A couple of trees were blown down. One of the trees took down cable television cables.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Jacksonville	$15,000	Water ponded on U.S. Highway 67/167 in Jacksonville. Parts of Dupree Park were flooded.
September 2008	Flash Flood	Jacksonville	$10,000	Dupree Park was under water in Jacksonville.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	$5,000	Power poles were snapped off and half of a McDonalds sight was destroyed.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	A tree fell through a mobile home in the Jacksonville area.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Trees and powerlines were blown down on Jeff Davis Street in Jacksonville.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	The Jacksonville Community Center sustained extensive roof and siding damage.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	A tree was blow down in the town of Jacksonville.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	A report and picture was received of a large tree blown down on Trickey Lane in Jacksonville.
February 2018	Flood	Jacksonville	-	West Main Street near Oneida in Jacksonville began to flood.
May 2017	Flash Flood	Jacksonville	-	Flooding was observed near the 900 block of Highway 161 in Jacksonville. Flooding was ongoing at the time of the phone call.
December 2017	Flood	Jacksonville	-	One to two inches of flood water was in the first floor of a business in Jacksonville.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	A tree was blown down on Southeastern Road.
May 2010	Hail	Jacksonville	-	Pea size hail increased to half dollar size near Little Rock Air Force Base.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Large tree limbs were down across a roof in the Stonewall community.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	The roof of a mobile home collapsed.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Large tree limbs downed.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Jacksonville	-	U.S. Highway 67/167 under water due to excessive rainfall.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Jacksonville	-	Numerous streets flooded in town, with some evacuations noted.
September 2005	Tornado (F1)	Jacksonville	-	A weak tornado entered northeast Pulaksi County from Lonoke County about 4 miles northeast of Jacksonville. The tornado moved to the northwest around the remnants of Hurricane Rita. Damage along the tornado consisted of minor roof damage to several residences and some trees blown down. The tornado dissipated about 5.7 miles northwest of Jacksonville.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Jacksonville	-	Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding about 3 miles north of Jacksonville. Several roads were underwater for a short period of time.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged a home and downed several trees in Jacksonville.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 58 mph at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Winds gusted to 66 mph at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
May 1994	Hail	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and power lines.
November 1993	Hail	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 62 mph at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
November 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 62 mph at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
November 1993	Hail	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 62 mph at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
November 1993	Hail	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 62 mph at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
November 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 62 mph at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
July 2018	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
March 2016	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
October 2014	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
February 2013	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
January 2012	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
June 2004	Flash Flood	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Sylvan Hills Country Club Golf Course	3.2 miles	2010
Dr. Charles H. Kennedy House	3.8 miles	2017
St. Joseph's Home	4.3 miles	1976
Lloyd England Hall	4.4 miles	1997
Frenchman's Mountain Methodist Episcopal Church-South and Cemetery	4.4 miles	1976
Roundtop Filling Station	5.0 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000831 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski County	All 383 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.