Old US 71-Ogden Segment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Route 71 is a U.S. route that runs from Krotz Springs, LA to the Fort Frances-International Falls International Bridge at the Canadian border. In Arkansas, the highway runs from the Louisiana state line near Doddridge to the Missouri state line near Bella Vista.”
Wikipedia article U.S. Route 71 in Arkansas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Little River County · listed in 2013 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Ogden & Grand Sts., W. of US 71 & E. of Kansas City Southern RR., Ogden, 71853
When was it listed? January 2013
Category. structure
Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
District. District 9
National Register reference number. 12001230 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

56 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Old US 71-Ogden Segment between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,242 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	49 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Little River County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ogden, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogden	-	A tree was blown down in the Ogden community.
August 2020	Flash Flood	Ogden	-	Several streets were flooded and closed in Ogden.
May 2015	Funnel Cloud	Ogden	-	Funnel cloud near the intersection of Highway 59 and Highway 380.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogden	-	Trees were reported downed near the Ogden area. Powerlines were also downed.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogden	-	Storm spotters estimated 60 mph winds which downed trees across Hwy. 71 south completely blocking the roadway.
May 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Ogden	-	Several trees were snapped along the east side of US 71 with numerous medium to large limbs downed in a nearly 2 mile long path. Although damage was not constant along the track, it was confined to a 100 yard wide swath. Maximum winds are estimated at 60-65 mph.
May 2009	Flash Flood	Ogden	-	Numerous county roads were underwater and closed. A total of 16 roads were closed at one point in time with another 66 roads partially underwater from the torrential rainfall that fell.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogden	-	Several large trees down.
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogden	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Little River 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Little River County Training School Historic District	7.7 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001230 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Little River County	All 20 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.
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.