Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
“The Union School is a historic school building in a rural setting of Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in Johnson County, Arkansas.”
Wikipedia article Union School (Hagarville, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 35 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Union School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,992 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 31 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 | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | PETERS BRANCH |
| 24 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | GILLIAN SETS |
| 19 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | WHITE |
| 13 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | WELL PAD |
| 12 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | MCANALLY |
| 1 August 2012 | Natural | 1,435 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | HESS KNOB |
| 8 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | SINGLE TREE |
| 5 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hagarville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagarville | $10,000 | The roof of a house was damaged. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagarville | - | Numerous trees were down. Roofs on chicken houses were damaged and part of a tin roof on a house was damaged. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagarville | - | Trees down. |
| November 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Hagarville | - | A weak tornado touched down very briefly to the north-northeast of Hagarville. One chicken house was destroyed and another was damaged. Several dozen chickens were killed. Some trees were also uprooted. |
| November 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Hagarville | - | A weak tornado touched down briefly just south of Hagarville. The only damage noted along the path of the tornado were some uprooted trees and other trees that were snapped off. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagarville | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagarville | - | Thunderstorms winds damaged a barn and chicken house and also knocked down some trees. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagarville | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagarville | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Hagarville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagarville | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Hagarville | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagarville | - | no account filed |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Big Piney Creek Bridge | 5.9 miles | 1990 |
| Big Piney Creek Bridge | 6.0 miles | 1990 |
 | Ozone School | 6.3 miles | 2015 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10001150 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Johnson County | All 35 listed properties in this county. |
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