Pine Bluff Commercial Historic District

Built in 2008. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Pine Bluff Commercial Historic District encompasses a portion of the historic city center of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It extends from Barraque Street south along Main Street, extending in places to properties alongside streets.”
Wikipedia article Pine Bluff Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2008 · category: District · built in 2008.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by US 65B, Walnut St., 10th Ave. & S. Alabama St., Pine Bluff, 71601
When was it listed? May 2008
Category. district
Township. Vaugine township
When was it built? 2008
National Register reference number. 08000438 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

27 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Pine Bluff Commercial Historic District between 2001 and 2018, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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/incendiarism	12
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 March 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pine Bluff Commercial Historic District: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vermiculite. 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
Port Plant	Vermiculite	Producer
Cross County Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pine Bluff Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sandhog Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

60 of 123 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Bluff, the town this property stands in, in 123 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 63 thunderstorm wind, 36 hail, 11 flash flood, 4 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 11 injuries. 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
August 1997	Lightning	Pine Bluff	1 killed, 1 hurt	Two men were standing near a bulldozer when lightning struck the bulldozer. The lightning travelled through the ground and struck them. One man sustained minor injuries and was later released from the hospital. The second man suffered a heart attack after being struck. He eventually died from his injuries about 2 weeks later.
May 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Pine Bluff	9 hurt, $200,000	Damage was noted to a few apartment buildings, with damage to brick facing and roofs. Trees and utility poles were blown down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	1 hurt, $125,000	Trees and limbs were blown down throughout town. One tree fell into a house. Some power poles were broken. An employee of the Arkansas Department of Correction was injured at a corrections facility 2.5 miles north-northwest of Watson Chapel when a pine tree limb fell on him.
May 2015	Flood	Pine Bluff	$5,000,000	The Arkansas River at Pine Bluff rose back above flood stage for the 2nd time in May, remaining in flood into June. Many homes were flooded in the Swan Lake area, along with many roads closed due to flooding. There were also water rescues from the Pine Bluff Regional Park and Campground.
June 2017	Lightning	Pine Bluff	$50,000	A house fire was caused by a lightning strike.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$50,000	Trees were blown down in Pine Bluff and many other places in Jefferson County.
November 1994	Tornado (F0)	Pine Bluff	$50,000	A small F0 tornado touched down briefly just southeast of Pine Bluff. One house sustained some roof damage and the front foyer was blown off. A few tree limbs were also blown down.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$50,000	Several buildings sustained roof damage from thunderstorm winds.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$25,000	Several trees were blown down in Pine Bluff around 5th and Cherry. A few power lines were also down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$25,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$25,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in the Pine Bluff vicinity, especially in areas around Old Warren Rd. and Middle Warren Rd. Downed power lines sparked a grass fire at E. 8th Ave. and S. Ohio St.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$25,000	A few trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2009	Lightning	Pine Bluff	$20,000	Lightning set several trees on fire. It also struck a couple of transformers.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$15,000	Several trees were blown down in Pine Bluff.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$10,000	Trees were down in the area. A few limbs were down on power lines.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$500	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
April 2025	Hail	Pine Bluff	-	Golf-ball sized hail fell in the city of Pine Bluff per social media report.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Several roads were flooded in Pine Bluff with water a foot deep in places.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Water completely covered making Second Avenue in Pine Bluff impassable.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	A large tree was blown down onto South Main Street in Pine Bluff.
September 2022	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Multiple streets were flooded in Pine Bluff.
April 2018	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Flash flooding occurred in Pine Bluff.
December 2017	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Reports were received of houses flooding.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Winds gusted to 64 mph at Grider Field Airport in Pine Bluff.
August 2012	Heavy Rain	Pine Bluff	-	A storm spotter measured 8.50 inches of rain in 25 hours.
August 2012	Heavy Rain	Pine Bluff	-	Rainfall measured 5.80 inches in 24 hours.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
October 2009	Heavy Rain	Pine Bluff	-	In Pine Bluff, it was the wettest October ever recorded.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Large limbs were reported down.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Damage was reported around Princeton Pike, including a large tree between 18 and 20 inches snapped in half.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Several trees were toppled.
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Large limbs, trees and power lines were knocked down.
January 2005	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Heavy rainfall caused street flooding in parts of Pine Bluff. A number of streets were impassible due to the flood waters and several cars stalled trying to maneuver through the high water.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur in parts of Pine Bluff. Several streets were flooded and impassible for a few hours due to the high water levels.
November 2005	Tornado (F0)	Pine Bluff	-	A weak tornado touched down briefly in Jefferson County, roughly 6.2 miles south-southwest of Pine Bluff. Winds were estimated at 60 mph. A number of trees were snapped off along the path of the tornado and one house sustained chimney damage. The tornado disspated 5.5 miles south-southwest of Pine Bluff.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Sheet metal was blown off of a hotel with power out in a 10 block area at Pine Bluff.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto power lines and also damaged the roof of a nearby building.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Heavy rains flooded a number of streets east of Pine Bluff.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Excessive rainfall flooded downtown streets in Pine Bluff. Water flowed into several businesses.
December 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Several trees were blown down.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and damaged the roof of a building.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds blew the porch off a mobile home, destroyed a nearby storage shed and downed a few trees.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur in Pine Bluff. Several streets were covered by high water for several hours.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines around Pine Bluff. An airplane hangar was also damaged.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Several buildings sustained roof damage near Pine Bluff.
November 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Several buildings in downtown Pine Bluff sustained wind damage from a severe thunderstorm. One of the buildings collapsed. Numerous trees were also blown down.
March 1998	Flash Flood	Pine Bluff	-	Heavy rains caused flash flooding in Pine Bluff. Several streets were underwater for a period of time.
January 1998	Hail	Pine Bluff	-	Hail up to golfball size covered the ground.
January 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some power lines.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some tree limbs.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs and power lines.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Some trees and power lines were blown down.
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some power lines at the Pine Bluff Arsenal.
March 2018	Hail	Pine Bluff	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Pine Bluff	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company Building	under 500 feet	2001
Hotel Pines	under 500 feet	1979
Yauch-Ragar House	0.1 miles	1978
Masonic Temple	0.2 miles	1978
Pine Bluff Fifth Avenue Historic District	0.2 miles	1980
Union Station	0.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000438 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 80 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.