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Lake Dick

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Lake Dick is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States. Lake Dick is northeast of Pine Bluff and south of Altheimer.”

Wikipedia article Lake Dick, Arkansas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 4 mi. S of Altheimer off AR 88, Altheimer, 72004
  • When was it listed? July 1975
  • Category. district
  • Township. Plum Bayou township
  • National Register reference number. 75000394 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lake Dick between 2001 and 2005, burning about 77 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 2004Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 October 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 October 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lake Dick: 1 past producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Altheimer, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2014Thunderstorm WindAltheimer1 hurtA tree fell on a man, injuring him.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindAltheimer$15,000Trees were blown down.
August 2010Flash FloodAltheimer$1,000Street flooding occurred in Altheimer.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAltheimer$1,000Minor damage occurred to an outbuilding.
March 2024HailAltheimer-Half-dollar sized hail fell in the community of Altheimer.
September 2011HailAltheimer-Hail up to the size of baseballs pounded Altheimer.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindAltheimer-Power lines were blown down at Altheimer.
March 2015HailAltheimer-no account filed
November 2004Flash FloodAltheimer-no account filed
April 2003HailAltheimer-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindAltheimer-no account filed
April 2001HailAltheimer-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindAltheimer-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindAltheimer-no account filed
June 1996HailAltheimer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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

5 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
Elms, The3.5 miles1978
Roselawn3.9 miles1978
St. Peter's Cemetery3.9 miles1998
Gracie House4.2 miles1982
Wabbaseka Methodist Episcopal Church, South7.8 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000394 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 80 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.