Morrison Plantation Smokehouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Morrison Plantation Smokehouse is a historic plantation outbuilding in rural Hot Spring County, Arkansas. Located off County Road 15 near Saginaw, it is the last surviving remnant of a once-extensive forced labor camp.”
Wikipedia article Morrison Plantation Smokehouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Hot Spring County · listed in 1977 · 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. Off I-30, Saginaw, 71941
When was it listed? December 1977
Category. building
Township. Prairie township
National Register reference number. 77000254 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

144 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Morrison Plantation Smokehouse between 1997 and 2019, burning about 727 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 27 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	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Smoking	9
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Morrison Plantation Smokehouse: 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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
Cook Brothers Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Hot Spring County

Storms near this property

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saginaw, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Saginaw	$2,000	A tree was blown down onto Interstate 30.

Every storm recorded in Hot Spring 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Garrett's Grocery Store	4.5 miles	2023
	Blakely House	6.3 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000254 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hot Spring County	All 27 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.