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Ozone School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Ozone School is a historic school building at 14137 Arkansas Highway 21 in Ozone, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of coursed fieldstone blocks and covered by gable-on-hip roof with exposed rafter ends.”

Wikipedia article Ozone School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 2015 · 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. 14137 AR 21, Ozone, 72854
  • When was it listed? January 2015
  • Category. building
  • Township. Perry township
  • National Register reference number. 14001200 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Ozone School between 1992 and 2018, burning about 508 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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/incendiarism24
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsHORSEWATER
7 September 1999Natural35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTRAIL HEAD
24 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGILLIAN SETS
18 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGRAVE GAP
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsRIFLE

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ozone, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 18 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2009Thunderstorm WindOzone$20,000Several trees were blown down in north central Johnson County, including one on Arkansas Highway 21 south of Ozone.
December 2019Thunderstorm WindOzone$5,000A tree was reported on a house on highway 21 and debris was in the road.
April 2026HailOzone-Quarter-sized hail fell in Ozone.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindOzone-Trees were blown down and blocking Highway 21 in Ozone.
June 2019Flash FloodOzone-The Johnson County EM reported several county roads were underwater due to flash flooding from earlier storms. The flooding was beginning to subside as of 845 am.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindOzone-Trees were down near Ozone.
April 2018Tornado (EF1)Ozone-The tornado developed just northwest of Ozone in northern Johnson county, just south of County Road 5420, knocking down several large pine trees. This tornado continued northeast through rural areas of the Ozark National Forest, continuing to knock down several pine and a few hardwood trees, including a few snapped trunks. This tornado lifted just east of Arkansas Hwy 21 near County Road 5571.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindOzone-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was recorded near Ozone.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindOzone-A tree was reported down on a car on Highway 103 about 12 miles north of Clarksville, AR.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOzone-Several large trees were blown down.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindOzone-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
January 2005Thunderstorm WindOzone-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a porch.
February 2023HailOzone-no account filed
May 2009HailOzone-no account filed
May 2008HailOzone-no account filed
April 2006HailOzone-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindOzone-no account filed
May 2003HailOzone-no account filed
May 2003HailOzone-no account filed
April 2002HailOzone-no account filed
May 2000HailOzone-no account filed
August 1998HailOzone-no account filed
August 1998HailOzone-no account filed
March 1997HailOzone-no account filed
May 1996HailOzone-no account filed
April 1996HailOzone-no account filed
April 1996HailOzone-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindOzone-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindOzone-no account filed
March 1996HailOzone-no account filed
April 1995HailOzone-no account filed
June 1994HailOzone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Union School6.3 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14001200 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson CountyAll 35 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.