Henry R. Koen Forest Service Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Koen Forest Service Building is a historic federal government office building at 605 West Main Street in Russellville, Arkansas. It is a two-story stone and frame structure, built in 1939 by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps.”
Wikipedia article Henry R. Koen Forest Service Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Pope County · listed in 1989 · 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.
Listed as. Koen, Henry R., Forest Service Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 605 W. Main St., Russelville, 72802
When was it listed? December 1989
Category. building
District. District 10
National Register reference number. 89001628 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Henry R. Koen Forest Service Building between 1997 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2005	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Henry R. Koen Forest Service Building: 25 unknowns, 9 past producers, 8 producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay. 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
Black-Sands Deposit	Titanium	Occurrence
Dierks Crystal Area No 6	Silica	Past Producer
Jacimore Ocher Cave	Iron	Unknown
Bernice	Clay	Past Producer
Shale Pit	Clay	Unknown
Bernice Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone	Unknown
Unknown	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pope 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
Latimore Tourist Home	0.1 miles	2012
Riggs-Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20	0.2 miles	1994
Russellville Downtown Historic District	0.2 miles	1996
Russellville Masonic Temple	0.2 miles	2005
Missouri-Pacific Depot-Russellville	0.2 miles	1992
Old Town Historic District	0.3 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001628 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pope County	All 38 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.