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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Perry Rock Island Railroad Depot
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 8 German Rd., Perry, 72125
- When was it listed? January 2021
- Category. building
- Also known as. Historic Railroad Depots of Arkansas MPS
- Township. Lake township
- National Register reference number. 100006027 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
92 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Perry Rock Island Railroad Depot between 1997 and 2020, burning about 707 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 9 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 | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Perry Rock Island Railroad Depot: 8 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copperas Gap Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| A. L. Young | Manganese | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Vaught Prospect | Manganese | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk Gravel Pits 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
27 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perry, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 3 hail. 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | $25,000 | Trees were down across the area. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | $5,000 | Power lines were blown down. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | $2,000 | A large tree was blown down along Arkansas Highway 9. |
| August 2025 | Heavy Rain | Perry | - | CO-OP observer measured 3.75 inches of total rainfall in the community of Perry. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | A tree was blown down across Hwy. 9 at Choctaw Road. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | A tree was blown down by the wind. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | Numerous trees were reported down. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | Trees were down just north of Perry along Highway 9 by Cypress Creek. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Perry | - | Highway 10 and Smith Crossings Road west of Perry were reported flooded. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | A gust of 60 mph was estimated. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Perry | - | A trained spotter reported flooding along Highway 10 between Adona and Perry. Another spotter measured 3.25 inches of rain between 650 pm and 900 pm 2 miles north of the flooding on Highway 10. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | A few trees were reported down in and around Perry. |
| November 2015 | Flash Flood | Perry | - | Several roads were closed throughout the county due to flooding. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Perry | - | One inch of rain fell in 17 minutes. |
| September 2009 | Heavy Rain | Perry | - | Perry broke the record for the greatest rainfall ever recorded in the month of September. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | Tree limbs were down. |
| June 2008 | Heavy Rain | Perry | - | About 3.25 inches of rain fell in a little less than an hour. |
| June 2008 | Heavy Rain | Perry | - | One and a half inches of rain fell in fifteen minutes. |
| June 2008 | Heavy Rain | Perry | - | About 2.25 inches of rain fell in 40 minutes. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | Large tree knocked down along Highway 9. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees. |
| February 1998 | Flash Flood | Perry | - | Heavy rains caused flash flooding in parts of Perry. High water covered several streets in town for a period of time. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Perry | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Hail | Perry | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Perry | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Perryville Commercial Historic District | 3.0 miles | 2012 |
 | Perry County Courthouse | 3.1 miles | 1976 |
 | Perryville American Legion Building | 3.1 miles | 1990 |
 | Houston Methodist Episcopal Church, South | 5.9 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006027 in Record Group 79. |
| Perry County | All 15 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.