Photograph of Hale Avenue Historic District — Photograph by Brandonrush, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hale Avenue Historic District Boundary Increase II

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Hale Avenue Historic District encompasses a significant portion of the central business district of Osceola, Arkansas. It extends for five blocks along Hale Avenue, between Ash and Maple Streets, and includes a few buildings on adjacent streets.”
Wikipedia article Hale Avenue Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 20 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 100 and 200 blocks W. Hale Ave.; 100,200 blocks E. Hale Ave.; 100 block N. Poplar, Osceola, 72370
When was it listed? August 2008
Category. district
Also known as. Osceola MRA
Township. Monroe township
National Register reference number. 08000722 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hale Avenue Historic District Boundary Increase II in 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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	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
3 May 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	YANKEE BAR FIRE

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hale Avenue Historic District Boundary Increase II: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this property

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osceola, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$75,000	A hotel had its metal roof torn off and had its doors blown off. Several cars were damaged near the hotel. One business had its plate glass window demolished. Another business had two buildings damaged. Several power lines and power poles were blown down.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Osceola	$50,000	Some roads were flooded in Osceola. A home was inundated with two feet of water.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$10,000	Six power poles and some trees were blown down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$10,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$10,000	An abandoned 500-foot tall commercial television tower collapsed due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2008	Hail	Osceola	$8,000	no account filed
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$5,000	Power poles were broken at the intersection of Highway 61 and Highway 325.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$5,000	Straight line winds knocked down power lines in Osceola.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$5,000	A roof was blown off of a trailer home.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$5,000	A couple of houses were damaged. Some trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines. Two buildings received roof and other structural damage.
January 2008	Hail	Osceola	$5,000	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Osceola	$5,000	no account filed
March 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$5,000	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$5,000	no account filed
January 2008	Hail	Osceola	$3,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$2,000	A few trees were knocked down across the road.
April 1995	Tornado (F0)	Osceola	$2,000	A tornado touched down blowing several trees down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$2,000	A few trees were blown down across a road.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Osceola	$1,000	Three inches of rain fell in one hour. A few roads were flooded with at least 6 inches of water on them.
April 2006	Hail	Osceola	$1,000	no account filed
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$500	Large tree blown down in church parking lot.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	$500	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
June 1998	Hail	Osceola	$150	Hail ranging from nickel to quarter size fell in Osceola.
March 2005	Hail	Osceola	$110	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Osceola	$100	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Osceola	$100	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Osceola	$60	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	-	Metal roof blown off a building on West Keiser Ave in Osceola.
April 2022	Hail	Osceola	-	Hail measured at 2 inches in Osceola.
October 2022	Hail	Osceola	-	Measured hail of 1.00 inch fell at the Osceola Police Headquarters.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	-	Trees damaged and power lines down near Mockingbird Lane.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Osceola	-	Straight line winds knocked down several trees in Osceola.
July 2009	Flash Flood	Osceola	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the vicinity of Osceola. Some back roads became impassable. A couple of county employees were unable to leave their houses in Osceola due to flooding.
June 1994	Hail	Osceola	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and telephone poles.
April 2020	Hail	Osceola	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Osceola	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Osceola	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Osceola	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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
Osceola Times Building	under 500 feet	1987
Mississippi County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1978
Hale Avenue Historic District (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	2003
Hale Avenue Historic District	under 500 feet	1987
Planters Bank Building	under 500 feet	1987
Bank of Osceola	0.1 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000722 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mississippi County	All 40 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.