Holly Grove Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Holly Grove Historic District encompasses the historic central business district of Holly Grove, Arkansas. It covers about one block of Arkansas Highway 86, between Pine and Smith Streets, extending slightly in each direction beyond.”
Wikipedia article Holly Grove Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Main and Pine Sts., Holly Grove, 72069
When was it listed? February 1979
Category. district
Township. Duncan township
National Register reference number. 79000446 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Holly Grove Historic District between 1999 and 2019, burning about 826 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	10
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	173 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	155 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2004	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2007	Smoking	141 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	HOLLY GROVE
6 October 2004	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 October 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holly Grove, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
May 2009	Flash Flood	Holly Grove	$75,000	Houses were flooded along Arkansas Highway 146 roughly 5 miles southeast of Holly Grove.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	$50,000	Several trees were blown down onto houses.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	$40,000	Trees, power lines, and power poles were blown down. Some of the trees fell on houses.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	$10,000	Some trees were blown down.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	$10,000	Large limbs were blown down, causing power outages.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew power lines down.
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	-	Several trees were blown down in the community of Holly Grove, AR.
March 2016	Hail	Holly Grove	-	Hail fell ranging in size from marbles to quarters.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	-	Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	-	Trees were down on power lines and across roads in town.
April 2010	Hail	Holly Grove	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Holly Grove	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Holly Grove	-	no account filed
October 2001	Hail	Holly Grove	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Holly Grove	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	-	no account filed
April 1999	Flash Flood	Holly Grove	-	no account filed
December 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	-	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Grove	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Holly Grove	-	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Holly Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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

4 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
Lair House	0.3 miles	1998
Abramson House	0.3 miles	1995
James A. Walls House	0.4 miles	1980
Capps House	7.6 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000446 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 43 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.
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.