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One of 42 National Register listings published here for Ouachita County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ouachita County Training School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. 740 Ouachita Rd. 589, Bearden, 71720
- When was it listed? September 2023
- Category. district
- Township. Union township
- National Register reference number. 100009343 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
151 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Ouachita County Training School between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,385 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 33 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 39 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| 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 | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 31 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Ouachita County Training School: 24 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bearden-Holly Springs Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fairchild Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Millville Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co Pit | 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 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
35 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bearden, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 18 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | $200,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. Some of the trees fell on houses. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | $25,000 | A high-voltage power line was blown down. Two homes were evacuated and a two-block area was closed as a precaution. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | $15,000 | Eight power poles were blown down and there was some tree damage off U.S. Highway 79 southwest of Bearden. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | $5,000 | Windows were blown out of a house by the winds. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | $2,000 | A large tree was down across Arkansas Highway 203. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Bearden | $100 | Street flooding was reported in Bearden. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | Numerous trees fell across northern and northeastern Ouachita County. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Bearden | - | Ping pong ball size hail was noted in Bearden on social media. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Bearden | - | Flash flooding was reported near the Bank of Bearden and the City Hall Area. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | Trees were blown down northeast of Bearden. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | Thunderstorm winds downed power lines at Bearden. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | A few trees downed. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Bearden | - | A weak tornado was spawned in northern Ouachita County about 3.8 miles west-southwest of Bearden. The tornado peeled some tin from the roof of a garage, damaged a mobile home, and downed some trees. A couple of the fallen trees knocked over power poles. The tornado dissipated roughly 1.8 miles west-southwest of Bearden. |
| December 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Bearden | - | A weak tornado (F0) touched down 2.7 miles west-southwest of Bearden and tracked to the northeast for 5.1 miles before lifting. The only damage noted along the path of the tornado were some trees that were snapped off and minor damage to the tin roof of a barn. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees and damaged several large signs in Bearden. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Bearden | - | no account filed |
| February 1996 | Hail | Bearden | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bearden Waterworks | 0.9 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009343 in Record Group 79. |
| Ouachita County | All 42 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.