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Muxen Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Muxen Building is a historic former school building in rural Crawford County, Arkansas. It is located on the west side of United States Route 71 south of Winslow, and next door to the Our Lady of the Ozarks Shrine.”

Wikipedia article Muxen Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 22733 N. US 71, Winslow, 72959
  • When was it listed? May 2019
  • Category. building
  • District. District 13
  • National Register reference number. 100003986 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Muxen Building between 1992 and 2019, burning about 627 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
27 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionCRA19125465
5 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 1992Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National Forestsnot named
27 April 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National Forestsnot named
25 April 1998Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsPROVENCE
23 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWAS17089184

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Our Lady of the Ozarks Shrineunder 500 feet2019
Chester Masonic Lodge and Community Building6.5 miles2000
Col. Jacob Yoes Building6.5 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100003986 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crawford CountyAll 35 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.