Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“The Smackover Historic Commercial District encompasses the civic and commercial heart of the small town of Smackover, Arkansas. It consists of sixteen buildings lining a single block of Broadway north of 7th Avenue.”
Wikipedia article Smackover Historic Commercial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 40 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1990 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 90000884 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
212 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Smackover Historic Commercial District
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 937 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 38 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
112
Arson/incendiarism
38
Debris and open burning
24
Equipment and vehicle use
21
Natural
6
Smoking
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Smackover, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 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.
An EF1 tornado touched down 3 miles west southwest of Smackover, Arkansas and downed large trees while snapping several others. The path width was 75 yards wide with a path length of 1.5 miles. At least 4 homes received damage from downed trees.
Multiple pictures were posted to social media of numerous roads that were flooded in Smackover. These pictures also revealed that water entered multiple building within the city.
Arkansas State Police reported that most roads were closed in Smackover, Arkansas for high water. Hwy. 167 north of El Dorado, Arkansas was knee deep in many locations.
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
3 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.
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.
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.
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