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One of 31 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Telephone Exchange Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. First and Main Sts., Powhatan, 72458
- When was it listed? October 1989
- Category. building
- Also known as. Powhatan MPS
- Township. Black River township
- National Register reference number. 88003207 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
45 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Telephone Exchange Building between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,031 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 18 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Telephone Exchange Building: 19 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casper Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Toles Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Black Rock Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Verkler Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Adams Prospects | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Campbell Zinc Co's Shafts 2 & 3 | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| D F Jones | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powhatan, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | Flash Flood | Powhatan | $488,000 | Heavy rain caused flash flooding between Imboden and Black Rock. Highway 63 was flooded. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhatan | $75,000 | Many trees and power-lines down across Lawrence county. One tree blocking the railroad. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhatan | $2,000 | Straight line winds blew two large trees down in Powhatan. |
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | Powhatan | - | Water was over parts of roads in Lawrence County, with reports of accidents. |
| March 2010 | Hail | Powhatan | - | Quarter size hail fell in Powhatan and Black Rock. The hail covered the ground in Black Rock. |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ficklin-Imboden House | under 500 feet | 1989 | |
 | Powhatan Jail | 0.1 miles | 1989 |
| Powhatan Courthouse | 0.2 miles | 1970 | |
 | Powhatan Methodist Church | 0.2 miles | 1977 |
 | Powhatan Schoolhouse | 0.3 miles | 1978 |
| US 63 Black River Bridge | 1.7 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88003207 in Record Group 79. |
| Lawrence County | All 31 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.