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Photograph of Cricket and Crest Tunnels
Photograph by Tpartrige, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cricket and Crest Tunnels Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Cricket Tunnel and Crest Tunnel are a pair of railroad tunnels in northern Arkansas, near the city of Omaha in Boone County. The Crest Tunnel, at 3,500 feet (1,100 m) is the longest tunnel in Arkansas, and is its only curved tunnel.”

Wikipedia article Cricket and Crest Tunnels, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Under and W of Old US 65, Omaha, 72662
  • When was it listed? September 2007
  • Category. district
  • Township. Omaha township
  • National Register reference number. 07000954 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Cricket and Crest Tunnels Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 735 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 August 2014Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBOO19078654
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2011Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cricket and Crest Tunnels Historic District: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Duffield Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Carrier ProspectZincProspect
Josie B. MineZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this property

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Omaha, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 27 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash 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
May 2011FloodOmaha$4,000,000Some of the campsites around Bull Shoals Lake were closed due to flooding.
April 2011FloodOmaha$500,000Widespread areal flooding occurred.
September 2014Flash FloodOmaha$75,000Streets flooded in Harrison and low-water crossings were flooded in Boone County. The Harrison airport measured 1.41 inches of rain between 2:59 PM and 3:11 PM CDT.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOmaha$15,000A roof was blown off of a mobile home. Several trees were down.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOmaha$15,000A large oak tree was down. Telephone poles and power lines were down.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindOmaha$5,000Trees were blown down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindOmaha$5,000Power lines were blown down on Old Highway 65.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOmaha-Several large tree limbs fell in the community of Omaha.
April 2023HailOmaha-This report was on Hwy. 65 south of Omaha.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOmaha-A large tree was down on power lines.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindOmaha-Some large tree limbs were knocked down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindOmaha-Thunderstorm winds knocked down several large trees at the Tucker Hollow Park.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOmaha-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOmaha-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
October 2021HailOmaha-no account filed
May 2020HailOmaha-no account filed
April 2018HailOmaha-no account filed
May 2017HailOmaha-no account filed
May 2017HailOmaha-no account filed
May 2017HailOmaha-no account filed
May 2017HailOmaha-no account filed
April 2011HailOmaha-no account filed
April 2011HailOmaha-no account filed
June 2011HailOmaha-no account filed
June 2008HailOmaha-no account filed
January 2006HailOmaha-no account filed
March 2006HailOmaha-no account filed
April 2006HailOmaha-no account filed
September 2006HailOmaha-no account filed
February 2005HailOmaha-no account filed
May 2004HailOmaha-no account filed
May 2002HailOmaha-no account filed
July 2001HailOmaha-no account filed
November 2001HailOmaha-no account filed
June 1999HailOmaha-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindOmaha-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindOmaha-no account filed
March 1999HailOmaha-no account filed
May 1996HailOmaha-no account filed
November 1995HailOmaha-no account filed
November 1995HailOmaha-no account filed
June 1994HailOmaha-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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

1 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
Cottonwood School #456.9 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000954 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boone CountyAll 21 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.