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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wickes School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 132 Highway 278 East, Wickes, 71973
- When was it listed? September 2024
- Category. building
- Township. White township
- National Register reference number. 100010843 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
76 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Wickes School between 1997 and 2019, burning about 907 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 34 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 | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wickes School: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hablitzel | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Little Missouri | Silica | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
33 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wickes, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Wickes | $75,000 | An EF1 tornado caused a mobile home and a horse trailer to be crushed by falling trees. Shingles were blown off a house. The metal roof was blown off a shed. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | $60,000 | A tree was blown down onto a house. Numerous county roads were blocked by fallen trees. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | $25,000 | U.S. 278 was blocked by numerous fallen trees. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Wickes | $20,000 | A house had its porch and part of its roof blown off. Much of the roof was blown off a mobile home. Trees were blown down. |
| August 2010 | Lightning | Wickes | $10,000 | Lightning set fire to a transformer. |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | $5,000 | An awning was blown off the front of a grocery store. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | $3,000 | The Emergency Manager reported utility poles broken. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | $1,000 | A tree was down on U.S. Highway 71. |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | $1,000 | Large tree limbs were down along U.S. Highway 71 south of Wickes. |
| November 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | Multiple trees and powerlines were blown down in Wickes. |
| November 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Wickes | - | This brief tornado developed along a strong rear flank downdraft surge that swept across areas immediately southeast of Wickes. Several chicken houses sustained varying degrees of damage, from roof panels stripped off most structures, to walls collapsed on at least one structure. Surrounding tree damage west of the track suggested strong inflow into the tornado while tree damage east of the track was consistent with non-tornadic damaging winds. Start and end locations/times were approximated due to limited accessibility. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Wickes | - | Golf ball size hail was reported in Wickes. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Wickes | - | Highway 59 near Wickes was underwater. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | Several trees were blown down across southern Polk County. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | Several trees were blown down onto several county roads across the county. |
| March 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Wickes | - | A funnel cloud was seen on Polk County Road 13 east of Wickes. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | Trees were blown down around Wickes. |
| September 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Wickes | - | A weak tornado was spawned in southern Polk County. The tornado tracked from 2.8 miles northwest of Wickes to 2 miles north of Wickes. The tornado downed or snapped dozens of trees, with two houses damaged and a parked automobile crushed by fallen trees. Two storage buildings were also overturned. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | Trees down. |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | Several large trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds at Wickes. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| February 2013 | Hail | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wickes | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Wickes | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bogg Springs Hotel | 5.5 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010843 in Record Group 79. |
| Polk County | All 33 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.