Waldron School Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 403 and 429 W. 5th St., Waldron, 72958
When was it listed? September 2019
Category. district
Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
National Register reference number. 100004437 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

80 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Waldron School Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 551 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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 burning	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this property

60 of 104 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waldron, the town this property stands in, in 104 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 47 thunderstorm wind, 34 hail, 20 flash flood, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2002	Flash Flood	Waldron	1 killed	A 65 year old female was driving across a low-water crossing when the vehicle was washed off the road. Her two grandchildren were also in the car at the time but were later rescued. She got out of the car and was swept about a half mile downstream and drowned.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	$400,000	A 2-mile wide swath of damage occurred across Waldron. Dozens of trees and power lines were blown down, as were some street lights. Several houses were damaged, primarily due to trees falling on them. Shingles were blown off some roofs and awnings were damaged. Two barns had their roofs blown off. Downtown, some business suffered roof damage and the wall of a concrete block building was blown in.
January 2007	Flash Flood	Waldron	$160,000	Heavy rain caused flash flooding, resulting in damage to county roads and bridges.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	$30,000	A house on Charcoal Road in Waldron had shingles blown off the roof and covering torn off the carport. Also, sheet metal was torn off the barn. Large pine trees in the area were snapped.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	$20,000	Numerous trees were blown down, and the roof was blown off of a house.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Waldron	$10,000	Several houses had water in them and several roads had water over them in Waldron.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	$10,000	Trees were blown down onto power lines.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	$10,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	$5,000	A few trees were blown down along Arkansas 250.
October 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	$5,000	Trees were down.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Waldron	$2,000	Greenridge Rd. was impassable due to high water.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	$1,000	Large limbs were blown down.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Waldron	$1,000	Street flooding occurred in Waldron.
April 2026	Hail	Waldron	-	Quarter-sized hail fell in the town of Waldron.
April 2026	Hail	Waldron	-	Half dollar sized hail fell in Waldron.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	A combination of severe winds and large hail led to roof damage to a Waldron school building where roof damage and water damage per the infiltration of water into the school were both noted.
April 2025	Hail	Waldron	-	Golf-ball sized hail fell in the town of Waldron.
April 2025	Hail	Waldron	-	Ping-pong ball sized hail fell in the town of Waldron.
April 2025	Hail	Waldron	-	Baseball-sized hail fell in the city of Waldron. Multiple police cruisers sustained substantial damage from the hail via window and frame damage from media pictures.
July 2024	Heavy Rain	Waldron	-	A 24 hour rainfall total of 3.52 inches was measured at Waldron.
March 2023	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	The emergency manager reported widespread 7 to 8 inch rainfall amounts across Scott County, the flood storage system was at full capacity, and main bridges across the county were under water.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Several trees were downed across the town of Waldron.
January 2022	Heavy Rain	Waldron	-	The Waldron COOP observer measured 4.40 inches of rain since the day before.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Trees and power lines were down in Waldron along Hwy. 80.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Trees and power lines were down across the county.
May 2021	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	The Scott County sheriff reported several portions of Hwy 71 unpassable due to elevated rivers and streams around Mansfield, Waldron, and Y City.
January 2020	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	Correction...Highway 80 between Hon and Waldron was closed due to high water flowing over the road.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	Main Street in the town of Waldron was inundated with several feet of water and numerous buildings were flooded.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Multiple trees were blown down.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	Many roads were covered in water throughout the city and surrounding areas.
August 2020	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	Many roads were underwater in Waldron and in the county.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	A water rescue was reported along Hwy. 248 West in Scott County.
September 2020	Heavy Rain	Waldron	-	The Waldron COOP observer measured 7.00 inches of rain in a 24 hour period.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	Widespread flooding and multiple water rescues were reported across the county and water was getting into homes and buildings in some locations.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	The Scott County sheriff's office reported several roads in Waldron were closed due to high water.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	Many bridges and roads, including Hwy. 28 and 71, across Scott County are underwater and/or washed out.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	Numerous roadways were flooded around Waldron with state highways 71 and 28 closed in some areas.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Several trees were blown down in Waldron.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Trees were blown down near Waldron and in other areas of northern Scott County.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Numerous trees were blown down, along with several power outages due to high winds.
December 2015	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	Numerous roads were flooded across the county.
April 2008	Hail	Waldron	-	Hail was reported on Cattleman Road off of Arkansas Highway 80.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Trees and power lines were reported down in the Pack Saddle area.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	A tree was down on West Second Street.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto a house.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	A large tree was taken down by thunderstorm winds.
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Power lines were blown down.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	Heavy rains flooded several roads to the southwest of Waldron.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees.
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Some trees were blown down.
April 2002	Flash Flood	Waldron	-	Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur along Highway 250, 3 miles south of Waldron. The highway was impassible for several hours due to the high water levels.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of several buildings near Waldron.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Thunderstorm winds gusting to 60 mph blew down some road signs in Waldron.
November 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees 7 miles east of Waldron.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down power lines.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and power lines.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Waldron	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees. ARKANSAS, Central and North Central, Cont'd
March 2019	Hail	Waldron	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Scott City County Jail, (Old)	0.3 miles	2002
Scott County Courthouse	0.3 miles	1989
Waldron Commercial Historic District	0.3 miles	2008
C.E. Forrester House	0.7 miles	1998
Poteau Work Center Residence No. 2	1.5 miles	1993
Poteau Work Center	1.6 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004437 in Record Group 79.
Scott County	All 14 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.