Wharton Creek Roadside Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 2024 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. South side of Arkansas Highway 74. approximately 600 feet east of Madison County Road 150, Wharton, 72740
When was it listed? 2024-05-03
Category. site
Township. North township
National Register reference number. 100010310 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Wharton Creek Roadside Park between 1997 and 2020, burning about 839 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism	9
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
11 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 April 2001	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 April 2000	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 April 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wharton Creek Roadside Park: 1 producer. All of them 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
	Madison County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Madison 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

4 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
Orval E. Faubus House	4.8 miles	2019
Madison County Courthouse	5.2 miles	1993
Huntsville Commercial Historic District	5.2 miles	2008
War Eagle Creek Bridge	6.4 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010310 in Record Group 79.
Madison County	All 12 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.