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Photograph of County Line School and Lodge
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County Line School and Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The County Line School and Lodge is a historic multifunction community building in rural western Fulton County, Arkansas. It stands at the junction of County Roads 115 and 236, just east of the county line with Baxter County, west of the small community of Gepp.”

Wikipedia article County Line School and Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of County Line School and Lodge between 1993 and 2019, burning about 767 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 August 1999Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 July 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2009Debris and open burning72 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of County Line School and Lodge: 10 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc. 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
Golman Turner PitZincPast Producer
Arnett LandIronPast Producer
Buttrom Land Number TwoIronProspect
Glazier LandIronPast Producer
Steel BankIronPast Producer
Summers MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this property

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gepp, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 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
December 2012Thunderstorm WindGepp$250,000One duplex lost its entire roof, several mobile homes were damaged, several outbuildings were damaged or destroyed, and highway signs were blown down. The area affected was so small that only about 100 electric customers lost service.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindGepp$40,000A shop building was reported destroyed.
April 2022HailGepp$10,000Four inch hail was estimated and windshields were broken.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGepp$10,000Power lines were blown down in the area.
May 2022Flash FloodGepp-All roads were impassable in Gepp.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGepp-Several trees were blown down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGepp-A mobile home was flipped over. Three occupants were inside, however escaped uninjured. Trees were also blown down.
May 2017HailGepp-Nickel size hail fell for 15 minutes.
April 2006HailGepp-Several vehicles were damaged by the large hail.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindGepp-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees and some large tree limbs.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGepp-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto a power line.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindGepp-Several signs were blown down.
March 2015HailGepp-no account filed
February 2012HailGepp-no account filed
May 2009HailGepp-no account filed
April 2009HailGepp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000386 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton CountyAll 11 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.