First National Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The First National Bank is a historic commercial building at 109 East University Street in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, trimmed in stone.”
Wikipedia article First National Bank (Siloam Springs, 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 109 E. University, Siloam Springs, 72761
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Benton County MRA
Township. Township 5
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 87002431 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of First National Bank between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,180 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 45 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	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	16
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2002	Smoking	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2011	Smoking	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	120 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30408
28 August 2000	Smoking	13 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of First National Bank: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Siloam Springs Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Siloam Springs, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 19 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Siloam Springs	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Siloam Springs	$2,000	no account filed
January 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	Severe thunderstorms moved from southeast Oklahoma into northwest Arkansas during the evening of January 12th. Large hail accompanied the storms with quarter-size hail which covered the ground eight miles northeast of Lavaca. Dime-size hail fell at several other locations in northwest Arkansas.
May 1994	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	Heavy rains caused flooding in Siloam Springs. Several streets in Siloam Springs were covered by water up to four feet deep.
May 1994	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	Heavy rains caused flooding in Siloam Springs. Several streets in Siloam Springs were covered by water up to four feet deep.
April 1994	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few tree limbs.
April 1993	Tornado (F0)	Siloam Springs	-	A small F0 tornado briefly touched down in an open area. There was no damage reported.
January 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
November 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
November 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
November 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
December 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
December 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
December 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
January 1995	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Siloam Springs	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Siloam 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
Henry Furniture Store Building	under 500 feet	1994
Stockton Building	under 500 feet	1988
Lakeside Hotel	under 500 feet	1979
Bratt-Smiley House	under 500 feet	1988
Connelly-Harrington House	under 500 feet	1988
Siloam Springs Downtown Historic District	under 500 feet	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002431 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.