Horace Mann School Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Horace Mann School Historic District of Norfork, Arkansas encompasses a complex of four Depression-era school buildings near the center of the community. It includes a main school building, built with Works Progress Administration (WPA) funding in 1936, a home economics building and a vocational educational building, both built in 1937 by the National Youth Administration, and the auditorium/gymnasium, built in 1940 with WPA funds.”
Wikipedia article Horace Mann School Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Baxter County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. City Hall Circle, Norfolk, 72658
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. district
Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
District. District 11
National Register reference number. 06001311 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Horace Mann School Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,256 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	FLOWER CREEK
24 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MATNEY
9 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Baxter 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 Horace Mann School Historic District: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Lead, Mercury, Zinc. 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
Meerscheidt	Lead, Mercury, Zinc	Prospect
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Baxter 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
Sid Hutcheson Building	0.2 miles	2014
Davis House	0.3 miles	1995
Jacob Wolf House	0.4 miles	1973
North Fork Bridge	0.5 miles
North Fork Bridge	0.6 miles
Galatia Church	2.5 miles

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001311 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baxter County	All 25 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.