Highway A-7, Gilmore to Turrell

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Crittenden County · listed in 2009 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. Old US 63 between Acwin St. in Gilmore and ditch No. 2 in Turrell, Gilmore, 72384
When was it listed? May 2009
Category. structure
Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
Township. Fogleman township
National Register reference number. 09000313 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Highway A-7, Gilmore to Turrell between 1993 and 2015, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	ARWPR-FY15-WF-RAILROAD FIRE
8 August 1996	Debris and open burning	5.4 acres	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	NEW SHOP
23 May 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	WAP 2
28 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	WALKWAY
15 March 1993	Smoking	3.1 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	WAP 1
16 October 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT D-18WILDFIRE

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilmore, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilmore	$5,000	Some trees were blown down.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilmore	$1,000	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Gilmore	$100	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Gilmore	$50	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crittenden 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Turrell City Hall, Old	1.5 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000313 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crittenden County	All 17 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.
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.