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CCC Company 3767 Powder Magazine Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The CCC Company 3767 Powder Magazine Historic District encompasses a pair of storage structures built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Ouachita National Forest. It is located northwest of Jessieville, down a short abandoned roadway leading north from the junction of Gladstone Forest Road and Hampo Road.”

Wikipedia article CCC Company 3767 Powder Magazine Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 95 National Register listings published here for Garland County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. K59P Rd. N of Forest Service Rd. 11 (Gladstone Rd.), Jessieville
  • When was it listed? March 2007
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Hale township
  • National Register reference number. 07000200 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of CCC Company 3767 Powder Magazine Historic District between 1994 and 2018, burning about 870 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 18 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/incendiarism18
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOuachita National ForestBUFFALO GAP
24 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National ForestTRAVIS
19 September 2013Natural350 acresOuachita National ForestPIPELINE
16 September 2013Natural2.4 acresOuachita National ForestJOSHUA CIRCLE
13 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOuachita National ForestSUNNY DAY
6 August 2012Natural17 acresOuachita National ForestBUFFALO GAP
4 August 2006Naturalunder an acreOuachita National Forest122

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of CCC Company 3767 Powder Magazine Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beard AreaSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this property

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jessieville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011FloodJessieville$3,000,000Some of the campsites around Lake Catherine were closed due to flooding.
April 2011FloodJessieville$1,000,000Widespread areal flooding occurred.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindJessieville$25,000Power poles and power lines were blown down.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindJessieville$2,000Large limbs were blown down around Jessieville.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindJessieville$1,000Large limbs were blown down.
November 2005Tornado (F1)Jessieville-A weak tornado touched down in the northern part of Garland County, about 4 miles northwest of Jessieville. Winds were estimated to be 90 mph. The tornado tracked through the Ouachita National Forest, snapping off and blowing down hundreds of trees. The tornado moved northeast into Saline County.
October 2004Flash FloodJessieville-Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur in the Jessieville area. Several roads were flooded, causing school buses to detour around the flooded roads.
October 1995HailJessieville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
June 2011HailJessieville-no account filed
June 2008HailJessieville-no account filed
July 2008HailJessieville-no account filed
March 2008HailJessieville-no account filed
November 2005HailJessieville-no account filed
November 2004HailJessieville-no account filed
May 2001HailJessieville-no account filed
August 2000HailJessieville-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindJessieville-no account filed
August 1998LightningJessieville-no account filed
April 1998HailJessieville-no account filed
April 1998HailJessieville-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindJessieville-no account filed
April 1996HailJessieville-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindJessieville-no account filed
April 1995HailJessieville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garland 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Iron Springs Dam7.3 miles1993
Iron Springs Shelter No. 17.3 miles1993
Iron Springs Shelter No. 27.3 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000200 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garland CountyAll 95 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.