Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
From the record
“The Hampton Masonic Lodge Building in Hampton, Arkansas is an Early Commercial style building that was built in 1920. As originally designed the building had commercial store space on the first floor, and rooms for both the Hampton Masonic Lodge and the Farmers Home Administration on the second floor.”
Wikipedia article Hampton Masonic Lodge Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 08000433 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
113 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Hampton Masonic Lodge Building
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 608 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 5 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
39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
35
Equipment and vehicle use
15
Natural
10
Arson/incendiarism
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Smoking
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
21 workings within 5 miles of Hampton Masonic Lodge Building: 16 unknowns, 4 producers, 1 past producer.
4 still produce. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hampton, the town this property stands in, in 59 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 24 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 10 flash flood, 3 tornado.
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.
There was flooding in Hampton. An assisted living center had to be evacuated. Arkansas Highway 203 along with other roads were impassable due to flooding. U.S Highway 167 at mile marker 9 was flooded. Three people had to be evacuated from their residences in Hampton.
Roofs of several buildings were damaged on the campus of the Hampton schools. Some of the debris was thrown onto a nearby football field. A flagpole was bent and part of the scoreboard damaged at the field. Due to roof damage at the high school gym, water poured down on the basketball court. Numerous large trees and power lines were blown down, and a few of the trees landed on structures. Trees were also blown down along U.S. Highway 278 east of Hampton. Numerous power lines were blown down and some power poles were broken.
A weak tornado touched down in Calhoun County, about 13 miles south-southeast of Hampton. The tornado tracked to the east and eventually lifted 6 miles south-southeast of Harrell. The only damage noted along the path of the tornado were some large limbs blown down and a few small trees knocked down.
A weak tornado touched down southeast of Hampton and tracked to the northeast for about 2.3 miles before lifting. A double wide mobile home was overturned. The mobile home was not occupied at the time the tornado struck. Several dozen large trees were uprooted and other trees were snapped off.
A weak tornado (F0) touched down briefly to the west-southwest of Hampton. The roof of a house sustained damage. A person living next door to the home that was damaged witnessed the tornado. Several pine trees were also snapped off.
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
4 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.
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.
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