Norwood School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Norwood School is a historic school building on Old Norwood Church Road near the unincorporated community of Norwood in south Benton County, Arkansas. It is a modest single-story stone building, fashioned out of rough-cut local fieldstone, topped by a hip roof with exposed rafter ends.”
Wikipedia article Norwood School (Norwood, Arkansas), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Norwood Rd. and AR 16, Norwood Community, 72761
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Benton County MRA
Township. Township 5
National Register reference number. 87002384 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Norwood School between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,010 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
10 September 2011	Smoking	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TOWER RD. FIRE
8 August 2011	Smoking	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 2011	Smoking	63 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Norwood School: 2 unknowns. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working 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
Gypsy Camp Historic District	3.3 miles	1988
Illinois River Bridge	3.8 miles	1988
Alfrey-Brown House	5.5 miles	1984
Illinois River Bridge	5.8 miles	2005
Thurmond House	5.9 miles	1988
Fred Bartell House	6.0 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002384 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.