Ouachita River Lock and Dam No. 8

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Ouachita River Lock and Dam No. 8 are a historic lock and dam on the Ouachita River in Calhoun County, Arkansas. The area is managed by the county and the Arkansas Fish and Game Commission as a public recreation area.”
Wikipedia article Ouachita River Lock and Dam No. 8, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1983 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. SE of Calion, Calion, 71744
When was it listed? December 1983
Category. structure
Township. Township 5
National Register reference number. 83003458 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

61 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Ouachita River Lock and Dam No. 8 between 1998 and 2020, burning about 489 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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	25
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	1
Smoking	1
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
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ouachita River Lock and Dam No. 8: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003458 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun County	All 9 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.