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Clover Bend Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Clover Bend Historic District encompasses a collection of historic municipal buildings in Clover Bend, Arkansas. It consists of five buildings, centered on the Clover Bend High School, built in 1937 with funding from the Farm Security Administration (FSA).”

Wikipedia article Clover Bend Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Jct. of AR 228 and Co. Rd. 1220, Clover Bend, 72410
  • When was it listed? September 1990
  • Category. district
  • Township. Lawrence township
  • National Register reference number. 90001368 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

31 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Clover Bend Historic District between 1999 and 2018, burning about 636 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning16
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2006Natural60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2007Debris and open burning31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clover Bend Historic District: 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
D F JonesSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this property

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clover Bend, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2005Thunderstorm WindClover Bend$25,000A fully secured trailer lost its roof and sustained significant structural damage near the town of Whiskerville. Some minor roof damage occurred and several trees were blown down.
April 2002HailClover Bend$10no account filed
March 2026Tornado (EF1)Clover Bend-This tornado began along County Road 547 where it damaged several power poles. The tornado continued towards the northeast over mostly farmland along County Road 534. It then moved into the town of Minturn where numerous trees were uprooted or snapped. Additionally, a few mobile homes sustained roof damage. The tornado then crossed over Interstate 67 and Narrow Gauge Road where more trees were uprooted. As it continued to the northeast, it tracked over more farmland before causing minor roof damage to a barn off County Road 701. The tornado continued toward County Road 705 where it downed more trees and power poles before dissipating. This tornado was rated EF1 with estimated maximum winds of 105 mph.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindClover Bend-Straight line winds caused roof damage to a home and a workshop along Highway 228 West near Minturn. The workshop roof was partially blown off.
January 2007Flash FloodClover Bend-Heavy rain produced flash flooding as a result County Road 543 near Clover Bend and County Road 716 near Hoxie were flooded.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Clover Bend High School0.4 miles1983
Old US 67, Alicia to Hoxie3.5 miles2003
Telephone Exchange Building7.0 miles1989
Ficklin-Imboden House7.0 miles1989
Powhatan Courthouse7.0 miles1970
Powhatan Jail7.1 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001368 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lawrence CountyAll 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.