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One of 64 National Register listings published here for Sebastian County · listed in 2015 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Camp Chaffee Historic District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Ward Ave., RR spur, Taylor Ave. & Terry St., Fort Smith, 72916
- When was it listed? April 2015
- Category. district
- Also known as. World War II Home Front Efforts in Arkansas, MPS
- Township. Upper township
- National Register reference number. 14001202 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Camp Chaffee Historic District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation) between 1997 and 2017, burning about 298 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 112 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 August 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Camp Chaffee Historic District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jenny Lind Quarry & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Smith, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Smith | $50,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Smith | $5,000 | Several trees were knocked down near the Fort Smith Airport. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Smith | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a light pole onto I-540. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Smith | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Smith | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | An isolated severe thunderstorm produced dime size hail in Fort Smith. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | Severe thunderstorms moved through northwest Arkansas during the late evening of May 7th. Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Cherokee City and in Sulphur Springs, and trees were also blown down in Hiawasse. Strong thunderstorm winds blew down telephone lines in Eureka Springs, and large tree branches were blown down by 60 mile an hour winds in Huntsville. Nickel-size hail fell at Fort Smith and at Greenwood, and dime-size hail fell two miles west of Lincoln. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Fort Smith | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Camp Chaffee Tank Destroyer Battalion Historic District | 0.2 miles | 2011 |
 | Maness Schoolhouse | 2.3 miles | 2003 |
 | Arkansas 22, Old, Barling Segment | 2.3 miles | 2007 |
 | Old US 71-Jenny Lind Segment | 5.6 miles | 2009 |
 | Oscar Chambers House | 5.7 miles | 2016 |
| Dr. Neil Crow Sr. House | 5.7 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14001202 in Record Group 79. |
| Sebastian County | All 64 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.