Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“The Holt-Poindexter Store Building is a historic retail building in rural Ouachita County, Arkansas. It is located on County Road 101, near its southern junction with County Road 111, about four miles (6.4 km) north of Stephens, in the unincorporated community of Ogemaw.”
Wikipedia article Holt-Poindexter Store Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Ouachita County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 86002948 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
170 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Holt-Poindexter Store Building
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 840 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 58 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
58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
57
Debris and open burning
24
Railroad operations and maintenance
10
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Natural
7
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Holt-Poindexter Store Building: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Stephens, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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.
A weak tornado touched down north of Stephens and moved to the northeast about 6 miles before lifting. Most of the damage along the path of the tornado consisted of hundreds of downed trees. Several power poles were also broken off.
A weak tornado (F0) touched down east of Stephens and tracked to the northeast for 5.7 miles before lifting. Damage along the path of the tornado consisted of a large tree blown down, with the tree knocking down a power pole. A number of trees were also downed in a nearby oil field.
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
4 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.
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.
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