Snowball Gymnasium

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Searcy County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Cty. Rd. 12, .1 mile west of Harvest Ln., Snowball, 72675
When was it listed? September 2020
Category. building
Township. Calf Creek township
National Register reference number. 100005592 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Snowball Gymnasium between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,423 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 104 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
Arson/incendiarism	104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Debris and open burning	18
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Smoking	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2001	Natural	4.2 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	AUGUST
2 August 2012	Natural	1.2 acres	Buffalo National River	MCCUTCHEON GAP SOUTH
24 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Buffalo National River	HANGOVER BLUFF

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snowball, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 4 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Snowball	-	Trees were down at Arkansas Highway 377 and Zack Ridge Road.
June 2011	Hail	Snowball	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Snowball	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Snowball	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Snowball	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Gates-Helm Farm	1.1 miles	1993
Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District	6.1 miles	2000
Oak Hill School House	7.9 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005592 in Record Group 79.
Searcy County	All 52 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.