Northern Ohio School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Northern Ohio School is a historic school building at 60 Arkansas Highway 184 in Parkin, Arkansas. It is a small wood-frame structure, clad in clapboards, with a corrugated metal roof, set on the south side of the highway just beyond the northern boundary of Parkin Archeological State Park.”
Wikipedia article Northern Ohio School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Cross County · listed in 2014 · 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.
Address. 60 AR 184N, Parkin, 72373
When was it listed? May 2014
Category. building
Township. Tyronza township
National Register reference number. 14000247 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Northern Ohio School in 2004, burning about 20 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
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 February 2004	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Cross County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Northern Ohio School: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Cross County

Storms near this property

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkin, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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	Parkin	$15,000	A grain bin was damaged along Highway 64.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkin	$10,000	Some trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkin	$7,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down along Highway 64.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkin	$5,000	A couple of trees were blown down.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkin	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
July 1995	Hail	Parkin	$100	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Parkin	$50	no account filed
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkin	-	Straight line winds knocked a few trees down in Parkin. One tree fell onto Highway 184.
September 2009	Flash Flood	Parkin	-	Heavy rain flooded streets in downtown Parkin. A viaduct underneath the railroad tracks was also closed due to flooding.
October 2014	Hail	Parkin	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Parkin	-	no account filed
September 2009	Hail	Parkin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cross 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 14000247 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cross County	All 16 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.