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McCrory Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The McCrory Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic commercial center of the city of McCrory, Arkansas. This area is located along Edmonds Street, the city's main north-south thoroughfare.”

Wikipedia article McCrory Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Woodruff County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of McCrory Commercial Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 205 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
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking6
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 1999Smoking29 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexCOLE
12 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2008Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 March 2018Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresCache River National Wildlife RefugePOSSUM CREEK
5 March 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 March 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexHWY260#1
21 March 1992Recreation and ceremony4.3 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexHWY260#2

Every fire recorded in Woodruff County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCrory, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1995HailMcCrory-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodruff 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
McCrory Waterworks0.1 miles2007
Dr. John William Morris Clinic0.1 miles2009
Revel General Store5.1 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000781 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Woodruff CountyAll 17 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.