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One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
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Marcella Church & School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. AR 14, Marcella, 72555
- When was it listed? September 1985
- Category. building
- Also known as. Stone County MRA
- District. District 6
- National Register reference number. 85002237 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
67 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Marcella Church & School between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,800 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 18 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Marcella Church & School: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Marble, Dimension, Flagstone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcbride Mines | Marble, Dimension, Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Barksdale Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Caraway Prospect | Manganese | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Cason Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1928 | |
| Manganese Field Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Mcbride Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1939 |
Storms near this property
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcella, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Marcella | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcella | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and some large tree limbs. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F2) | Marcella | - | A strong tornado was spawned in eastern Stone County roughly 3.6 miles west of Marcella. The tornado tracked to the northeast, and tore the porch off of a house and damaged the roof. A roof was removed from a barn with another barn roof damaged. Several homes had roof damage, and a shed was destroyed. Hundreds of trees were downed, with one tree on a flatbed truck. The tornado dissipated 2.7 miles northeast of St. James. |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | Marcella | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Thomas E. Hess House | under 500 feet | 1983 |
 | Owen Martin House | under 500 feet | 1985 |
 | Jessie Abernathy House | 0.1 miles | 1985 |
| Binks Hess House and Barn | 0.2 miles | 1985 | |
| H. J. Doughtery House | 0.3 miles | 1985 | |
| Thomas M. Hess House | 0.3 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85002237 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.