Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
From the record
“Hankins' Store is a historic commercial building at Ferry Road and Main Street in Oil Trough, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, built out of local cypress lumber, with a gable roof and clapboard siding that is original to its 1904 construction.”
Wikipedia article Hankins' Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Independence County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 14000248 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
32 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Hankins' Store
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 913 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism
14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Debris and open burning
8
Smoking
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Hankins' Store: 3 unknowns, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Oil Trough, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 28 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 5 tornado, 4 flash flood.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
An F2 tornado touched down 2 miles south of Oil Trough and traveled approximately 5 miles to the northeast before lifting. The path that the tornado traveled was mostly in farm fields. However, the tornado did strike several houses and an airplane hangar. One home sustained major damage, while two other homes received some minor structural damage. A number of trees were also snapped off or uprooted along the path. A local pilot managed to capture a portion of the storm on videotape. The homes that were damaged were unoccupied at the time the tornado struck.
Trees were blown down from Oil Trough eastward along Arkansas 14. In Oil Trough, a huge pecan tree fell through a mobile home. A weather station near Oil Trough recorded a wind gust of 59 mph.
A small funnel cloud was observed to the southeast of Oil Trough. The funnel cloud was far above the ground and was not extending very far down from the base of the cumulus cloud from which it developed.
Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur over portions of Independence County. Several roads were covered by high water around the Oil Trough area and Highway 14 was flooded for a period of time.
Lightning struck the roof of a house which resulted in a fire. The fire was quickly extinguished and damage was confined to the roof and attic area of the house.
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.
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.
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