Cleburne County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Cleburne County Courthouse is located at Courthouse Square in the center of Heber Springs, the county seat of Cleburne County, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, built in the Jeffersonian Revival style in 1914 to a design by Clyde A.”
Wikipedia article Cleburne County Courthouse (Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Cleburne County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Courthouse Sq., Heber Springs, 72543
When was it listed? July 1976
Category. building
Township. Township 2
National Register reference number. 76000393 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Cleburne County Courthouse between 1997 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2012	Natural	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cleburne County Courthouse: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Heber Springs Quarry & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heber Springs, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and damaged some roof of buildings.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds blew camping trailers over and uprooted trees in the Heber Springs area. Some of the trees fell onto camping trailers.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees onto houses.
August 1995	Hail	Heber Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber Springs	-	Several trees were blown down.
September 1993	Hail	Heber Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Olmstead, T. E., & Son Funeral Home	under 500 feet	1995
Heber Springs Commercial Historic District	under 500 feet	2009
Hugh L. King House	0.2 miles	1992
Rector House	0.2 miles	2008
Dr. Cyrus F. Crosby House	0.3 miles	1993
Clarence Frauenthal House	0.3 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000393 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cleburne County	All 18 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.