CCC Company 741 Powder Magazine Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The CCC Company 741 Powder Magazine Historic District encompasses two structures built by Camp 741 of the Civilian Conservation Corps c. 1936. The camp, the first established in Arkansas, used these structures to store explosive materials used in road and bridge construction projects.”
Wikipedia article CCC Company 741 Powder Magazine Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. Forest Service Rd. 177M NE of Norman, Norman, 71957
When was it listed? March 2007
Category. structure
Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
Township. Norman township
National Register reference number. 07000201 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

75 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of CCC Company 741 Powder Magazine Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,204 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	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
7 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	44410 ROAD
23 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	FAIR GROUND ROAD
23 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	CRYSTAL PARK
15 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of CCC Company 741 Powder Magazine Historic District: 10 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Quartz, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Limestone, Dimension. 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	Recorded
Facy Hill	Barium-Barite	Producer
Fisher Mountain Tract	Quartz, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	1946
Unknown	Limestone, Dimension	Unknown
Unknown	Flagstone	Unknown
Black Springs	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Burch Lode Mine	Quartz	Producer	1982
Crystal Pyramid Mine	Quartz	Producer	1986, 1987
Fiddler's Ridge Crystal Mine	Quartz	Producer	1986, 1989
Fisher Mountain Mine	Quartz	Producer	1940

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norman, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 18 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2020	Flash Flood	Norman	$40,000	The Montgomery County Sheriff Office reported multiple tents and one vehicle were washed into the Caddo River near the town of Norman. All campers evacuated beforehand and there were no reports of injuries.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	$40,000	Trees were blown down on Arkansas 8 near Norman. One of the trees fell on a car. No one was injured.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	$1,000	Large limbs were blown down. A storm spotter estimated winds at 60 mph.
April 2026	Hail	Norman	-	Golf-ball sized hail fell south of Mt. Ida near the town of Norman.
April 2026	Hail	Norman	-	Quarter-sized hail fell in the town of Norman per HAM radio operators.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	Trees were blown down across Smoky Hollow Road.
May 2020	Heavy Rain	Norman	-	Most of the 4.75 inches of rain fell between 11 pm CST and 5 am CST.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	Trees were down on Highway 27, south of Mount Ida.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Norman	-	Owly Road was reported flooded, and Williams Creek had come out of its bank and was running over the bridge nearby.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	Trees were down on Highway 27, south of Mount Ida.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	Trees were downed.
March 2018	Flash Flood	Norman	-	Several roads in the southern portion of Montgomery County were washed out and impassable.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	Trees were blown down along Highway 27 south, about a quarter mile outside of Norman.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Norman	-	Fire department reported cars floating out of peoples driveways in Norman.
October 2010	Hail	Norman	-	Hail from quarter size to golf ball size fell.
October 2010	Hail	Norman	-	Hail fell at the Crystal Recreation Area.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines.
September 2001	Flash Flood	Norman	-	Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding along a Forest Service road 12 miles southwest of Norman .
October 1997	Flash Flood	Norman	-	Heavy rains caused flash flooding in and around the Norman area. Numerous roads were covered by high water. A low water bridge was also washed out. A number of homes and businesses were also flooded.
June 2011	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
November 2004	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
February 2000	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	no account filed
October 1999	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
October 1999	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Norman	-	no account filed
October 1997	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
November 1996	Flash Flood	Norman	-	no account filed
January 1994	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Norman	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Collier Springs Shelter	0.9 miles	1993
Crystal Springs Dam	1.7 miles	1993
Crystal Springs Camp Shelter	1.7 miles	1993
Womble District Administration House No. 1	3.9 miles	1993
Caddo Valley Academy Complex	4.5 miles	2002
Norman Town Square	4.6 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000201 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 13 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.