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Photograph of Eureka Springs Historic District
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Lane House Theater

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Eureka Springs Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. Its boundaries are those of the city of Eureka Springs, Arkansas at the time of its listing, specifically augmented in 1979 to include its historic railroad depot.”

Wikipedia article Eureka Springs Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 475 buildingss, 15 sitess, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. Most Eureka Springs and its environs, Eureka Springs, 72632
  • When was it listed? December 1970
  • Category. building
  • Township. Western township
  • National Register reference number. 70000118 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

93 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Lane House Theater between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,540 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning25
Smoking1
Natural1

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
13 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2006Natural13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2007Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2007Arson/incendiarism90 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lane House Theater: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kings River Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka Springs, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. The reports record 10 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995HailEureka Springs10 hurtSevere thunderstorms moved across northwest Arkansas during the evening of May 24th. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour in Bloomer, and hail ranging from nickel to golf ball-size fell at Eureka Springs. The hail injured approximately ten persons attending an outdoor passion play in Eureka Springs. Dime-size hail fell two miles southeast of Fort Smith, at Jenny Lind, and at Strickler.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindEureka Springs$500Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindEureka Springs-Severe thunderstorms moved across northwest Arkansas during the evening of April 19th. Thunderstorm winds estimated at 100 miles an hour destroyed 1 mobile home and 2 poultry barns 1.5 miles northwest of Gentry, and mobile homes were damaged and trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds 4 miles west of Gentry. Numerous trees were blown down in Gentry by 65 mile an hour winds, and several houses in Gentry received major roof damage. Strong thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto a house in Pea Ridge, and blew down a power line 6 miles north of Eureka Springs. Dime size hail fell at several locations in northwest Arkansas, and 1 man was injured in Centerton when he was struck by lightning.
May 1995HailEureka Springs-Severe thunderstorms moved across northwest Arkansas during the evening of May 24th. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour in Bloomer, and hail ranging from nickel to golf ball-size fell at Eureka Springs. The hail injured approximately ten persons attending an outdoor passion play in Eureka Springs. Dime-size hail fell two miles southeast of Fort Smith, at Jenny Lind, and at Strickler.
June 1994HailEureka Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
June 1994HailEureka Springs-Some trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEureka Springs-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEureka Springs-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindEureka Springs-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindEureka Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000118 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll CountyAll 34 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.