West Richwoods Church & School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The West Richwoods Church & School is a historic multifunction building on Arkansas Highway 9 in West Richwoods, Arkansas, a hamlet in rural central Stone County. It is a vernacular rectangular frame structure, with a gable roof topped by a small open belfry.”
Wikipedia article West Richwoods Church & School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1985 · 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.
Address. AR 9, West Richwoods, 72560
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Stone County MRA
District. District 5
National Register reference number. 85002205 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

52 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of West Richwoods Church & School between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,003 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Stone 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 West Richwoods Church & School: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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	Stone	Producer
Mountain View Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mountain View Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stone County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stone County Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Richwoods, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2013	Flash Flood	West Richwoods	$10,000	Ditches overflowed onto roadways, making several of them impassable. Low water crossings were under water. Widespread street flooding occurred.
April 2026	Tornado (EF1)	West Richwoods	-	Storm survey revealed a tornado developed south of Mt. View just\|east of AR State Hwy 9 west of Stewart Road northwest of the\|community of Hanover. The tornado continued generally east-\|southeast crossing Hanover and Luber Roads. The tornado then\|moved a more easterly direction toward the intersection of\|Misenheimer and Waco Roads, dropping off the plateau crossing AR\|State Hwy 5 west of Arbana. The tornado then crossed Iron\|Mountain Road, eventually lifting near the intersection of Stone\|County Road 273 and Bob Davis Mountain Road southwest of the\|Pleasant Grove community. Damage to barns and outbuildings was\|noted, along with many trees blown down. This tornado was rated\|EF1, with maximum estimated winds of 110 mph and width of\|approximately 400 yds.

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Samuel Brown House	1.6 miles	1985
H. S. Mabry Barn	3.2 miles	1985
Brewer's Mill	4.0 miles	1985
John F. Brewer House	4.1 miles	1985
Dew Drop Inn	4.2 miles	1985
C. B. Case Motor Co. Building	4.2 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002205 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stone County	All 58 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.