Walnut Ridge Army Airfield Access Road

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“The Walnut Ridge Army Airfield Access Road is a historic roadway segment near College City, Arkansas. It consists of about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) of Fulbright Avenue, extending east from its junction with the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Walnut Ridge Army Airfield Access Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2016 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Roughly bounded by US 67 & jct. of Fulbright Ave. & Stafford Ln., College City, 72476
When was it listed? June 2016
Category. structure
Township. Campbell township
National Register reference number. 16000318 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Ridge Army Airfield Access Road between 1999 and 2015, burning about 211 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
Debris and open burning	10
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
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 June 2009	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 2003	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 2003	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 March 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Walnut Ridge Army Airfield Access Road: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this property

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names College City, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2004	Tornado (F0)	College City	$5,000	The tornado touched down just west of College City and tracked northeast and moved into southeast Randolph county. The tornado was not on the ground the entire time. Some trees were blown down.
April 2008	Hail	College City	$1,500	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	College City	-	Power lines were downed along AR-State Highway 34 near the intersection with US Highway 67 to the northeast of Walnut Ridge.
April 2010	Flash Flood	College City	-	Heavy rain produced widespread flooding in College City. Numerous streets were flooded.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	College City	-	A trained spotter estimated winds to be 62 mph in College City.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	College City	-	Thunderstorm wind gust measured on a home anemometer.
March 2010	Hail	College City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Mount Zion Cemetery	under 500 feet	2021
Commandant's House	0.5 miles	2010
Building Number 29	0.9 miles	2012
Walnut Ridge Commercial Historic District	3.8 miles	2010
Lawrence County Courthouse	3.9 miles	2015
Walnut Ridge Post Office, Old	3.9 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000318 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lawrence County	All 31 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.