Municipal Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 204 N. West Ave., El Dorado, 71730
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. building
Township. El Dorado township
Architectural style. modern architecture, Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 83001167 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

127 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Municipal Building between 1997 and 2020, burning about 434 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined	40
Debris and open burning	37
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	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
8 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Municipal Building: 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Bromine, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Clay. 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
El Dorado Brick Works Pit and Plant	Brick Clay	Past Producer
El Dorado Monument Works	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
El Dorado Sulphur Plant	Sulfur	Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Bounds Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jet Asphalt & Rock Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ouchita Aggregate Co,Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Arkansas Chemicals,Inc	Bromine	Past Producer
Great Lakes Chemical Marysville	Bromine	Past Producer
Unk	Bromine	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this property

60 of 156 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Dorado, the town this property stands in, in 156 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 75 thunderstorm wind, 50 hail, 26 flash flood, 3 lightning. The reports record 4 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
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	1 hurt, $1,000,000	Trees were toppled throughout the area with damage to many homes and businesses and powerlines. The Noalmark Broadcasting tower was blown down and a tree fell across a home totally demolishing it. Residents were evacuated after a nitric acid tank was blown down near the El Dorado Chemical Plant. The spill residue was contained and neutralized on-site. There was one injury reported when a man was trapped inside his car after a tree fell on it.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	1 hurt, $40,000	A large tree was downed in town that fell on a home. There was a report of one minor injury.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	1 hurt	High winds downed trees west of town including one that fell across an automobile. A person was trapped inside the car and sustained minor injuries.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	1 hurt	A woman was injured when trees fell across her mobile home in the Newell Community. She was trapped for several hours until rescued but suffered only minor injuries.
April 2016	Lightning	El Dorado	$250,000	Lightning struck the Murmill Baptist Church on Beacon Hill Road in Southeast El Dorado. This resulted in a fire which completely burned the church down to the ground.
August 2008	Flash Flood	El Dorado	$250,000	Police Department reported that several roads across the city had nearly one foot of water on them. Water was beginning to enter some parked cars in some areas. Between 1100 am and noon, the local police department was busy blocking badly flooded streets and helping people who had become stranded inside stalled cars. Water reached the windows of some stalled vehicles and covered the hoods of others. Flooding was particularly bad on 19th Street just east of College Avenue and at the Mellor Park Mall. Other streets that reported flooding were Timerlane, Grove, West Block, Junction City Road, Hillsboro, North West Avenue and Mount Holly Road. Water was high enough to go into a business located on North West Street.
June 2001	Flash Flood	El Dorado	$175,000	Unofficial reports of 10 inches of rain were received which was responsible for washing out a number of roads, bridges and culverts throughout the area from El Dorado to Smackover. Murphy road was washed out completely and Hayes City Loop suffered extensive culvert damage while Silver Hill Loop was "cut in two." Silver Hill Loop arches northward from Arkansas 160 west of Smackover and was described as a scene that resembled the aftermath of a small bombing attack. The road simply vanished into a jagged crater than sank well past the original road bed, some six feet beneath the existing cap, into a pool of muddy water.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$100,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees...some of which struck homes in the El Dorado area. There were no reports of injuries. Damage was reported to the El Dorado High School building on Timberlane and Parnell Road. The winds blew down a wall to one of the buildings along with large trees that fell on the school property. Half the roof was also taken off a home in the Mount Moriah community.
June 2009	Flash Flood	El Dorado	$100,000	Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in several flooded cars inside the city.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$75,000	Trees were downed on two different homes in El Dorado causing minor to moderate damage.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$75,000	A supercell thunderstorm produced downed trees and powerlines along Hwy 167 south of town. Two stores were also damaged along Iron Mountain Road in the Faircrest Community. The roof was blown off one store.
May 2023	Lightning	El Dorado	$50,000	Lightning struck an oil tank at the Delek Refinery in El Dorado, setting it on fire.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$50,000	Numerous trees were downed along with power poles. Some structural damage was also reported.
May 2015	Lightning	El Dorado	$40,000	A lightning strike resulted in a house fire in El Dorado, Arkansas.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$35,000	A large tree fell onto a home causing severe structural damage. No injuries were reported.
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$30,000	Trees were downed around El Dorado including one tree on a home just north of town. There were no reports of injuries.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$25,000	Numerous trees and powerlines were downed along Campbell Road and Hinson Road in the Parkers Chapel Community. One tree fell through a mobile home causing significant damage. There were no reports of injuries.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$25,000	Numerous trees were downed including one that fell on a house near Parkers Chapel, Arkansas.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$25,000	Tree down on a trailer in Lisbon. No injuries reported.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$20,000	Two roofs were taken off buildings with damage to a third in the south part of town.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$10,000	Numerous trees toppled including one on a mobile home.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$5,000	A large Autozone sign was bent to the ground by strong thunderstorm winds.
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds blew a tree onto an outbuilding.
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds blew a tree onto an out-building.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	$1,000	A tree was downed on Hopewell Road. A motorists rain into the tree but was not injured.\|A few other trees were downed and minor property damage was reported including an awning blown off a shop in downtown El Dorado.
March 2026	Hail	El Dorado	-	Quarter size hail reported on the northeast side of El Dorado, via Mping.
May 2025	Hail	El Dorado	-	Quarter size hail fell at the KTVE/KARD studios in El Dorado.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	A large tree was uprooted onto a house at the intersection of Sixth Street and Calion Road.
April 2025	Hail	El Dorado	-	Quarter size hail fell in El Dorado.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	Several trees were blown down in El Dorado.
April 2025	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	High water covered several roads in El Dorado.
September 2025	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	High water covered East Main Street and Newton Road in El Dorado.
September 2025	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	West 19th Street and Tanglewood Drive was covered in high water.
March 2024	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	Numerous roads were flooded and closed throughout much of Union County with widespread rainfall amounts in excess of 5 inches.
April 2024	Flood	El Dorado	-	Hillsboro Street at the train trestle near Cook Street was flooded along with Champagnolle Road at 19th Street.
May 2024	Hail	El Dorado	-	Half dollar size hail reported via mPING.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	A tree was blown down onto a home on Agnes Road.
January 2023	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	High water covered the intersection of 19th Street and Tanglewood Drive.
January 2023	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	Several roads were flooded and closed in El Dorado.
May 2023	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	The intersection of 19th Street and Tanglewood Drive in El Dorado was flooded.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	A 59 mph wind gust was recorded at the South Arkansas Regional Airport on the west side of El Dorado.
July 2023	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	The intersection of Lorene Street and Junction City Road was flooded in ankle deep water.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	Trees were blown down at College Avenue and 8th Street. A nearby church sign was also damaged. A tree was also downed onto a home in the 1000 block of Crestwood Drive.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	Several homes suffered roof damage and multiple trees were downed in and near El Dorado.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	Multiple trees and power lines were blown down across Union County.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	Trees were downed blocking the westbound lanes of Highway 82 just east of Highway 167.
July 2022	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	High water with depths of 3-4 feet covered West 19th Street and Tanglewood Drive in El Dorado. Multiple high water rescues were needed to rescue stranded motorists and residents from their homes.
April 2021	Hail	El Dorado	-	Quarter size hail fell in El Dorado.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	Shingles were blown off of a building just south of El Dorado. Report from mPING.
March 2021	Hail	El Dorado	-	Dime to nickel size hail fell in El Dorado.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	Large trees and large signed were downed in El Dorado. A small metal building was destroyed at Fire Station #3 on Griffith Street in El Dorado.
April 2020	Hail	El Dorado	-	A picture was posted to social media of penny size hail that fell in Main Street in El Dorado.
April 2019	Hail	El Dorado	-	A picture of dime to penny size hail that fell on the east side of El Dorado was posted to Facebook.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	El Dorado	-	Several trees were blown down blocking roads throughout Union County.
January 2017	Hail	El Dorado	-	Dime to quarter size hail fell in El Dorado.
April 2016	Hail	El Dorado	-	The Union County Coroner reported half dollar size hail in El Dorado.
April 2016	Hail	El Dorado	-	The El Dorado Police Department reported nickel size hail in the city.
March 2016	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	Junction City Highway near South Jackson Street was flooded and closed.
March 2016	Hail	El Dorado	-	Penny size hail was reported in El Dorado.
March 2016	Flash Flood	El Dorado	-	Multiple roads flooded and closed in El Dorado, Arkansas.

Every storm recorded in Union 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Union County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1983
Masonic Temple	under 500 feet	2001
El Dorado Confederate Monument	under 500 feet	1996
Bank of Commerce	under 500 feet	1982
Exchange Bank	under 500 feet	1986
J.H. McWilliams House	0.1 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001167 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 40 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.