Mayberry Springs

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Mayberry Springs is a historic traveler's accommodation and early resort on United States Route 270 near Crystal Springs, Arkansas. Located roughly midway between Hot Springs and Mount Ida, the main surviving structure is a single-story wood-frame structure with vernacular Greek Revival styling.”
Wikipedia article Mayberry Springs, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 95 National Register listings published here for Garland County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 270, Crystal Springs, 71968
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. building
Township. Hale township
National Register reference number. 90001379 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Mayberry Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 797 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 25 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Fireworks	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
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BEAR RIFLE RANGE
28 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Ouachita National Forest	MEYERS
28 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mayberry Springs: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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
No Name	Silica	Past Producer
No Name	Clay	Past Producer
No Name	Slate, Dimension	Past Producer
No Name	Slate, Dimension	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal Springs, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Crystal Springs	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 1995	Hail	Crystal Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Crystal Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Harley E. Green House	2.1 miles	1979
Gillham House	3.5 miles	1994
Charlton Bathhouse	4.4 miles	1993
Charlton Spillway-Dam	4.5 miles	1993
Camp Clearfork Historic District	5.3 miles	1993
Army & Navy Memorial Lodge	6.4 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001379 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garland County	All 95 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.