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Photograph of Castleberry-Harrington Historic District
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Castleberry-Harrington Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Castleberry-Harrington Historic District encompasses a collection of three mixed masonry buildings erected between 1946 and 1950 by regionally known master mason Silas Owens Sr. on Castleberry Road in rural northwestern Faulkner County, Arkansas. All are single story stone structures, built of various shades of sandstone and other materials, and were built for various members of the extended Castleberry and Harrington families.”

Wikipedia article Castleberry-Harrington Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Faulkner 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Castleberry--Harrington Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Castleberry Rd., Republican, 72058
  • When was it listed? June 2007
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Mixed Masonry Buildings of Silas Owens, Sr. MPS
  • Township. Union township
  • National Register reference number. 07000503 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

96 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Castleberry-Harrington Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 861 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burning9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Faulkner County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Castleberry-Harrington Historic District: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Reynolds Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mc Ray QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this property

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Republican, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRepublican$15,000Trees and large limbs were down near Arkansas Highway 25 and U.S. Highway 65.
June 2014FloodRepublican$1,000Street flooding occurred around Greenbrier and Springhill.
March 2015HailRepublican-no account filed
April 2011HailRepublican-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulkner 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Merritt House2.2 miles2005
Farris and Evelyn Langley House2.5 miles2005
S.D. Merritt House2.6 miles2005
Spears House2.7 miles2005
Quattlebaum-Pelletier House3.3 miles2005
Richard and Mettie Ealy House3.8 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000503 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Faulkner CountyAll 64 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.