Steele-Dortch General Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 383 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

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. 4815 Arkansas Highway 161 South, Scott
When was it listed? January 2025
Category. building
Township. Hill township
National Register reference number. 100011294 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Steele-Dortch General Store between 1997 and 2018, burning about 112 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
2 August 1997	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 June 2001	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 March 2006	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 March 2005	Arson/incendiarism	62 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 March 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 January 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	PUL3131498

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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

6 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
McKenzie House	under 500 feet	1992
Seed Warehouse No. 5	0.2 miles	2010
All Souls Church	0.3 miles	1977
Fred and Lucy Alexander Schaer House	5.6 miles	2007
Harris House	6.0 miles	1998
Land's End Plantation	6.7 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011294 in Record Group 79.
Pulaski County	All 383 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.