Turkey Creek School

Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Turkey Creek School is a former school building located along Arkansas Highway 9 in Stone County, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a metal gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Turkey Creek School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1925.

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, Turkey Creek, 72560
When was it listed? October 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Stone County MRA
District. District 4
When was it built? 1925
National Register reference number. 85003396 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

35 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Turkey Creek School between 1998 and 2017, burning about 523 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	21
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2002	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Stone 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 Turkey Creek School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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	Producer

Every working 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

5 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
West Richwoods Church & School	5.8 miles	1985
Bonds House	6.4 miles	1992
Samuel Brown House	7.0 miles	1985
Wesley Copeland House	7.8 miles	1985
H. S. Mabry Barn	7.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003396 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.