Whittington Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The Whittington Park Historic District encompasses a mainly residential area in northwestern Hot Springs, Arkansas. The district is centered on Whittington Park, a landscaped design of Frederick Law Olmsted built in the 1890s by the National Park Service.”
Wikipedia article Whittington Park Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 95 National Register listings published here for Garland County · listed in 2012 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Whittington Ave. & Sabie St. between Water & Woodfin Sts., Hot Springs, 71901
When was it listed? December 2012
Category. district
Township. Hot Springs township
National Register reference number. 12001055 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

197 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Whittington Park Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,080 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 52 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	52
Debris and open burning	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48
Natural	20
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Fireworks	3

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 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hot Springs National Park	VEHICLE WF
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Whittington Park Historic District: 15 past producers, 10 producers, 1 occurrence. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Vanadium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Arkansas Power and Light Company Property	Fluorine-Fluorite, Pyrite	Past Producer
Hot Springs Pit	Silica, Tripoli	Producer
No Name	Clay	Past Producer
No Name	Flagstone	Past Producer
No Name	Clay	Past Producer
No Name	Flagstone	Past Producer
Potash Sulfur Springs	Niobium (Columbium)	Occurrence
Wilson Springs Vanadium Deposit	Vanadium, Niobium (Columbium)	Past Producer	1950, 1967
Hot Springs Mill	Silica	Producer
Mc Earl Mine	Silica	Producer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this property

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hot Springs, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail. 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
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
April 1994	Hail	Hot Springs	$5,000	Golf ball-size hail broke several car windshields.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	$500	The tops of some trees were broken off.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree that blocked a road in Hot Springs.
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	-	Winds gusted to 69 mph at the Hot Springs Airport. Some tree limbs were also blown down.
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	-	Several trees were blown down, resulting in power outages.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees in the western part of Hot Springs.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	-	Some trees were blown down.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building.
May 1995	Hail	Hot Springs	-	Lightning struck an apartment building in Hot Springs which resulted in a fire.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hot Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building.
July 1994	Hail	Hot Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some tree limbs.
June 1994	Hail	Hot Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
June 1994	Hail	Hot Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
April 1995	Hail	Hot Springs	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Hot Springs	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Hot Springs	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Hot Springs	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Hot Springs	-	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Hot Springs	-	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Hot Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Fordyce-Ricks House Historic District	2.5 miles	2003
Peter Dierks Joers House	2.5 miles	2009
Mountainaire Hotel Historic District	2.8 miles	2004
Perry Plaza Court Historic District	3.0 miles	2004
Plaza Apartments	3.0 miles	1999
Bill Clinton Boyhood Home	3.0 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001055 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garland County	All 95 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.