Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
From the record
“The Highfill Community Center, formerly the Highfill School, is a historic school building at 11978 Highfill Avenue in Highfill, Arkansas, at its northeast corner with 4th Street. It is a single-story frame structure, finished with wooden clapboard siding and a hip roof.”
Wikipedia article Highfill School (No. 71), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1911.
National Register reference number. 100001991 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
27 since 1998
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Highfill School (No. 71)
between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,374 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Arson/incendiarism
7
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Debris and open burning
2
Natural
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Highfill School (No. 71): 2 unknowns, 1 producer.
1 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Highfill, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
This tornado developed just west of True Road, south of Daniels Road, where trees were uprooted. It moved northeast, severely damaging the northern portion of five chicken houses, and then crossed Daniels Road into a subdivision of homes. Several homes in the southeast section of this subdivision received significant structural damage to their roofs, and numerous others received minor damage to their roofs. The tornado continued to move east-northeast after it crossed Mason Valley Road, and uprooted trees near the intersection of Vaughn Road and Wagner Road, before dissipating. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.
High winds blew over an 84,000-square-foot airplane hangar under construction at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. There was also minor damage to an existing hangar at the airport. The ASOS at the airport measured a peak wind gust of 46 knots (53 mph).
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour did significant damage to a storage building and minor damage to two poultry houses. A power pole and power line were also blown down.
Wind damage resulted from a thunderstorm at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. A bridge which stretched from the airport terminal to a jet was damaged when it was blown into an adjacent bridge. A few roof tiles were blown off of the terminal when the bridge was dislodged.
Portions of several roads were flooded and closed near Highfill, including Highway 12 from Highfill to Gentry, and Highway 264 from Atkins Road to the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport.
Water covered AR Hwy 264 near Highfill, blocking access to the new Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. The NWS Cooperative Observer 2 miles south of Bentonville reported 2.22 inches of rain for the 24-hour period ending at 7 AM February 7. A clogged drain may have led to this flooding report.
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.
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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