Keo Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Keo Commercial Historic District encompasses a cluster of commercial and industrial buildings that make up the economic center of the small city of Keo, Arkansas. The district includes a two-block section of Main Street, anchored at its southern end by the Cobb Cotton Gin complex, and on the north by Arkansas Highway 232, where it extends a short way in both directions.”
Wikipedia article Keo Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Lonoke County · listed in 2011 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Main & Fleming Sts., AR 232, Keo, 72083
When was it listed? June 2011
Category. district
Also known as. Cotton and Rice Farm History and Architecture in the Arkansas Delta MPS
Township. Lafayette township
National Register reference number. 11000355 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Keo Commercial Historic District between 2000 and 2017, burning about 67 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	2
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
27 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 May 2005	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 December 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lonoke County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Keo Commercial Historic District: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	England Pit & Plant	Clay	Producer
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lonoke County

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keo, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Keo	$100,000	This tornado exited Pulaski County 2.9 miles east of Wampoo and entered Lonoke County 3.1 miles south of Keo. Much of the tornado's track was across farm fields. However, trees were knocked down in several tree lines. A couple of miles north of England, a farm shop was destroyed, and a second farm shop, tractor shed, and house were damaged.
April 2017	Heavy Rain	Keo	-	The 24 hour rainfall total was 3.67 inches.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Keo	-	A tree was reported down.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Keo	-	Large limbs were down across Walter Estes Road.
November 2004	Tornado (F0)	Keo	-	A weak F0 tornado touched down north of Keo and tracked to the northeast for about 8.6 miles before dissipating. Two homes sustained roof damage and a portion of a barn roof was blown off. Several tall trees were snapped off and a few power poles were blown down.
August 2008	Hail	Keo	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Keo	-	no account filed
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Keo	-	no account filed
February 1998	Hail	Keo	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Keo	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Keo	-	no account filed
November 1995	Hail	Keo	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Keo	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Keo	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Keo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lonoke 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000355 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lonoke County	All 32 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.