L.A. Black Rice Milling Association Inc. Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Office is a historic office building at 508 South Monroe Street in DeWitt, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure with a low-pitch shed roof.”
Wikipedia article L.A. Black Rice Milling Association Inc. Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Arkansas County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Black, L.A., Rice Milling Association Inc. Office - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 508 S. Monroe St., DeWitt, 72042
When was it listed? January 2013
Category. building
Township. La Grue township
National Register reference number. 12001229 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of L.A. Black Rice Milling Association Inc. Office in 2001, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
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
10 March 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Arkansas 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
First United Methodist Church	0.2 miles	1992
DeWitt Post Office	0.3 miles	1998
Arkansas County Courthouse-Southern District	0.4 miles	1992
DeWitt Commercial Historic District	0.4 miles	2010
Halliburton House	0.5 miles	1974
Maxwell Street Bridge	0.5 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001229 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arkansas County	All 24 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.