Buffalo River State Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Buffalo River State Park was an Arkansas state park, established in 1938, that was absorbed into Buffalo National River when the Federal park was established in 1972. The new state park was developed with Civilian Conservation Corps labor in 1939 with the construction of park structures to plans from the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Designs.”
Wikipedia article Buffalo River State Park (Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Buffalo National River, Yellville, 72687
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Township. Marion County township
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 78003461 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo River State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,178 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 44 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	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Debris and open burning	19
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Buffalo National River	LEON
3 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Buffalo National River	GENE
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Buffalo National River	SCHNAUZER LANE
23 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Buffalo National River	CLABBER GRAVEL BAR
14 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Buffalo National River	PL FIRE
8 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Buffalo National River	BAYHALER

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Buffalo River State Park: 21 past producers, 10 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Copper. 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
Corbin Lead Deposit	Lead, Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Omeara Prospect	Tungsten, Zinc	Occurrence
Tomahawk	Copper	Past Producer
Unknown	Lead, Zinc	Unknown
Unknown	Lead, Zinc	Unknown
Anglo-American Prospect	Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Big Bell Mine	Lead, Zinc	Unknown
Cobert Prospect	Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
George Washington Prospect	Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Good Luck Prospect	Lead, Zinc	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yellville, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 25 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 6 injuries. 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 1996	Tornado (F2)	Yellville	6 hurt, $1,000,000	no account filed
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	$50,000	Several trees and power lines were blown and some were on homes and vehicles. Several outbuildings were also damaged.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	$25,000	Several large trees were blown down, with one of the trees landing on a house.
June 2007	Lightning	Yellville	$25,000	Lightning struck the county courthouse. There was damage to the outside of the building, as well as several computers inside the courthouse.
April 2025	Hail	Yellville	-	Ping-pong ball-sized hail fell in the town of Yellville, report via MPing.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Yellville	-	High, fast moving water flowed over the Arkansas Highway 14 bridge over Town Branch which is a tributary of Crooked Creek in Yellville.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Yellville	-	In Yellville, the Marion County courthouse was flooded. In the vicinity of Flippin, several residents were evacuated due to water enter homes.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Yellville	-	Creekside Nursing Home/Rehabilitation Center was evacuated due to water that was rising to a height as high as the bed sides of many residents.
March 2017	Hail	Yellville	-	Pea to nickel sized hail covered the ground.
March 2017	Hail	Yellville	-	Pea to nickel sized hail covered the ground in the area.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Yellville	-	Flash flooding was reported on roads across the county.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	Limbs were blown down at several locations in Yellville.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	Trees down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees near the high school, with roof damage at a nearby home.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	Trees and power lines were knocked down.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees. The porch and roof of a nearby home sustained minor damage.
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of a few buildings in Yellville.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	Several trees were blown down.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	Several trees were blown down.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
May 2020	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
March 2015	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	no account filed
July 1998	Lightning	Yellville	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Yellville	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed
March 1993	Hail	Yellville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
	Rush Historic District	3.5 miles	1987
	Cold Springs School	5.7 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78003461 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion County	All 28 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.