DeWitt Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The DeWitt Commercial Historic District encompasses part of the historic downtown of De Witt, Arkansas, the seat of the southern district of Arkansas County. It consists of roughly six square blocks, focused on Courthouse Square, location of the Southern District Courthouse.”
Wikipedia article DeWitt Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Arkansas County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by N. Washington, 2nd St., S. Adams and Gibson Ave., DeWitt, 72042
When was it listed? April 2010
Category. district
Township. La Grue township
National Register reference number. 10000213 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of DeWitt Commercial Historic District in 2001, burning about 10 acres 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
10 March 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Arkansas 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 County Courthouse-Southern District	0.1 miles	1992
DeWitt Post Office	0.1 miles	1998
First United Methodist Church	0.2 miles	1992
Halliburton House	0.2 miles	1974
Maxwell Street Bridge	0.2 miles	2011
L.A. Black Rice Milling Association Inc. Office	0.4 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000213 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arkansas County	All 24 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.