Shores Warehouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Shores Warehouse is a historic commercial building on Main Street in Cave Springs, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry building, built in 1911 out of concrete blocks, which have on two sides of the building been faced to resemble rusticated stone.”
Wikipedia article Shores Warehouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1988 · 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. Main St., Cave Springs, 72718
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Benton County MRA
Township. Township 5
National Register reference number. 87002374 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Shores Warehouse between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,137 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
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	875 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	BUTLER CREEK
12 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2012	Smoking	23 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 1998	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 April 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton 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 Shores Warehouse: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cave Springs, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 1997: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cave Springs	$20,000	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cave Springs	$100	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Cave Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Osage Creek Bridge	1.9 miles	1988
Rife Farmstead	2.0 miles	1988
Piercy Farmstead	2.1 miles	1988
Mt. Hebron M.E. Church South and Cemetery	2.3 miles	2003
Council Grove Methodist Church	2.4 miles	1988
Osage Mills Dam	3.0 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002374 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 162 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.