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One of 27 National Register listings published here for Hot Spring County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lono Gymnasium
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 11702 AR 222, Lono, 72084
- When was it listed? January 2020
- Category. building
- Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
- Township. Clear Creek township
- National Register reference number. 100004896 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
116 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Lono Gymnasium between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,062 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 28 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 | 37 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lono Gymnasium: 6 unknowns. 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.
Storms near this property
12 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lono, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Lono | $25,000 | Street flooding occurred in Malvern. Road flooding occurred across the county. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lono | - | Powerlines were reported downed by thunderstorm winds near the town of Lono, along Hwy. 222. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Lono | - | Half dollar size hail was noted between Donaldson and Lono. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lono | - | Trees were reported to be blown down. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lono | - | Trees were blown down. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Lono | - | A weak tornado moved from Dallas County into the extreme southeast corner of Hot Spring County about 4.2 miles southwest of Lono along Highway 9. An eyewitness observed the tornado cross from Dallas County into Hot Spring County. The only damage noted were a few trees that were blown down. The tornado continued moving northeastward into Grant County. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lono | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Lono | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Lono | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lono | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Lono | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lono | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| L' Eau Frais Creek Bridge | 6.0 miles | 2025 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004896 in Record Group 79. |
| Hot Spring County | All 27 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.