Redfield School Historic District

Built in 2014. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Redfield School Historic District is an historic district that encompasses the Depression-era school complex at 101 School Street in Redfield, Arkansas. It is owned and managed by the nonprofit Friends of Redfield School Historic District.”
Wikipedia article Redfield School Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2014 · category: District · built in 2014.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 101 School St., Redfield, 72132
When was it listed? October 2014
Category. district
Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
Township. Barraque township
When was it built? 2014
National Register reference number. 14000791 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

129 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Redfield School Historic District between 1997 and 2018, burning about 1,662 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 47 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
Debris and open burning	48
Arson/incendiarism	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
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
29 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redfield, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 24 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 6 flood, 3 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
December 2009	Flood	Redfield	$750,000	Flash flooding, which developed on the morning of the 24th, became widespread areal flooding later on the 24th and continued into Christmas morning. Many county roads were flooded. Pine Bluff had some flooded streets, especially Hazel St. from 40th Ave. to Interstate 530, and Old Warren Rd. A number of streets in White Hall were flooded.
December 2009	Flash Flood	Redfield	$750,000	Heavy rain resulted in the development of flash flooding on the morning of the 24th.
May 2011	Flood	Redfield	$500,000	Some of the camping areas along the Arkansas River were closed due to flooding.
April 2008	Flood	Redfield	$300,000	Minor flooding at the Pine Bluff stream gage on the Arkansas River occurred for three days. The crest in April was one foot higher than the March crest and may have been partially due to the high Mississippi River stages. Damages were primarily to agricultural lands, county roads, and a few houses in Island Harbour Subdivision near Pine Bluff. About four homes were flooded, twice as many as in March. Other property within the levee system, such as hunting and fishing camps, was also flooded.
December 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Redfield	$100,000	Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped, with power lines blown down in places. A few homes had roof damage. The corner of one roof was removed, with some damage inside the house. A trampoline and swing set were thrown aloft and wrapped around trees. Several sheds were destroyed.
April 2011	Flood	Redfield	$100,000	Widespread areal flooding occurred.
October 2009	Flash Flood	Redfield	$25,000	Flash flooding damaged some county roads.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$10,000	Trees were blown down.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$5,000	Power lines were blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$5,000	Some trees were blown down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$3,000	Trees were blown down along Interstate 530.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$2,000	Several trees were blown down.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$500	There were reports of numerous limbs and trees down in Redfield. We also had a report of a fence blown over on Highway 365.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	A trained storm spotter observed estimated wind gusts of 60 mph near Redfield.
June 2023	Hail	Redfield	-	Quarter sized hail fell north of Redfield via mPING.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	The amateur radio operator reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
February 2018	Flood	Redfield	-	All lanes of Highway 46 N at the 14000 block in Redfield are blocked due to high water.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	An amateur radio operator estimated thunderstorm winds around 70 mph.
October 2009	Flood	Redfield	-	Flash flooding which began early on the 30th became widespread areal flooding later in the morning.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Redfield	-	Flash flooding was reported on Arkansas Highway 365.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some small trees. Two 4 foot by 8 foot portable signs were overturned.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some power lines at Redfield.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	Thunderstorm winds caused some roof damage and downed large trees 2 miles south of Redfield.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	Several trees and a power pole were knocked down.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees and blew some shingles off the roof of a car wash.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	Several trees were knocked down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
May 2022	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
November 2017	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
November 2017	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
March 2015	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
February 2012	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
March 2001	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	no account filed
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	no account filed
October 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	no account filed
February 1996	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
West James Street Overpass	0.2 miles	1995
Redfield Commercial Historic District	0.3 miles	2023
Lone Star Baptist Church	0.4 miles	2005
Dollarway Road	0.8 miles	1974
Dollarway Road (Boundary Increase)	3.2 miles	1999
Plum Bayou Homesteads	7.5 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000791 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 80 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.