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Fargo Training School Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Fargo Training School in Fargo, Arkansas was founded as a private school initially known as the Fargo Agricultural School. It was an historically important school from the segregation era, and its surviving campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.”

Wikipedia article Fargo Training School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Floyd Brown Dr, E of M and A Rd, Fargo, 72021
  • When was it listed? May 2010
  • Category. district
  • Township. Greenfield township
  • National Register reference number. 10000287 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fargo Training School Historic District between 1993 and 2018, burning about 430 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2007Smoking210 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2007Natural18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2002Debris and open burning122 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexBANKS
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 February 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionLON859527
29 November 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexMCGRAW

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Fargo Training School Historic District: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brewer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fargo, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020Thunderstorm WindFargo-A Union Pacific Mesonet site measured a 67 mph wind gust.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindFargo-A tree was blown down across the highway 49.
February 1993HailFargo-Hail, up to 1.00 inch in diameter, covered the ground and lasted for approximately 5 to 10 minutes.
March 2008HailFargo-no account filed
February 1999HailFargo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000287 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe CountyAll 43 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.