Garrison Place

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Garrison Place was a historic house in rural Dallas County, Arkansas. Built c. 1861, it was a rectangular single-story braced-frame structure clad in weatherboard, and was the only 1860s house of that type in the county, exhibiting other construction features not found in any other period buildings in the county.”
Wikipedia article Garrison Place, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of AR 48, Carthage, 71725
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Dallas County MRA
Township. Chester township
National Register reference number. 83003470 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

60 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Garrison Place between 1998 and 2018, burning about 576 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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	16
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Garrison Place: 7 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Unk	Silica	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carthage, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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 2011	Flood	Carthage	$750,000	no account filed
April 2011	Flood	Carthage	$250,000	Widespread areal flooding occurred.
April 2010	Tornado (EF1)	Carthage	$40,000	A mobile home was blown off its foundation and had part of its roof blown off, windows blown out, and limbs thrown through its roof. Power lines, power poles, and trees were blown down.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	$10,000	A tree fell across a road. Power outages occurred in Carthage.
October 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	$5,000	Some trees were down.
October 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	Trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 229.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines. Six homes and a business in Carthage also sustained roof damage.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	Several trees blown down.
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Carthage	-	A weak tornado touched down in northeast Dallas County near the Cooney community. The only damage noted were a number of trees that were twisted and blown down. The tornado moved eastward into Grant County.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees on Highway 229 at Carthage.
January 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	Several trees were blown down.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Carthage	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Carthage	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Carthage	-	no account filed
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	no account filed
December 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Carthage	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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

3 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
Hampton Springs Cemetery (Black Section)	1.4 miles	1983
Mt. Zion Methodist Church	3.4 miles	1983
Bank of Carthage	5.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003470 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallas County	All 41 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.