Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Depot was a historic railroad station off Arkansas Highway 10 in Blue Mountain, Arkansas. It was a single-story rectangular wood-frame structure, with a hip roof whose deep eaves were supported by triangular brackets.”
Wikipedia article Blue Mountain station (Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1978 · 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 AR 10, Blue Mountain, 72826
When was it listed? February 1978
Category. building
Township. Blue Mountain township
National Register reference number. 78000607 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

74 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Depot between 1994 and 2020, burning about 961 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 23 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/incendiarism	23
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	WICKED
25 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Logan 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Gabriel Fort House	5.5 miles	1996
Petit Jean River Bridge	5.7 miles	1995
Magazine City Hall-Jail	5.8 miles	1993
Cove Creek Bridge	6.5 miles	1995
Burnett Springs	7.1 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000607 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 44 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.