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Photograph of A.R. Carroll Building
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

A. R. Carroll Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Carroll Building is a historic commercial building on Main Street in Canehill, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure, with a flat roof and a pressed metal facade on the upper level.”

Wikipedia article A.R. Carroll Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1982 · 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.
  • Listed as. Carroll, A. R., Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Main St., Canehill, 72717
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Canehill MRA
  • Township. Cane Hill township
  • National Register reference number. 82000944 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of A. R. Carroll Building between 1998 and 2017, burning about 235 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2000Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Debris and open burning60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of A. R. Carroll Building: 2 past producers. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canehill, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Flash FloodCanehill$15,000Three vehicles were stranded in flood water on Highway 45.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCanehill$100Tree blown down on SH 45 near Canehill.
June 2019Flash FloodCanehill-Portions of several roads near Canehill were flooded.
July 2007Flash FloodCanehill-Heavy rain caused flooding which required Highway 45 to be closed.
April 2004HailCanehill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Zeb Edmiston Houseunder 500 feet1982
Methodist Manseunder 500 feet1982
William Welch Houseunder 500 feet1982
United Presbyterian Church of Canehillunder 500 feet1982
Blackburn House0.1 miles1982
Canehill College Building0.1 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000944 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 160 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.