Rosenwald School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Rosenwald School is a Rosenwald school on Arkansas Highway 26 in Delight, Arkansas. The school, a single-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof, was built in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration.”
Wikipedia article Rosenwald School (Delight, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Pike County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. AR 26, Delight, 71940
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. building
Township. Wolf Creek township
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90001381 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

68 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Rosenwald School between 1993 and 2019, burning about 703 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 18 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
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2000	Natural	250 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rosenwald School: 7 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Unknown Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Arkansas Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Delight Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this property

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delight, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 18 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 flash flood. 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 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	$50,000	A few houses sustained minor damage due to falling trees and an abandoned chicken house was destroyed.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged two barns.
October 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	$30,000	A home in Delight received major damage from high winds.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	$15,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	$15,000	Trees and power lines were blown down west of Delight.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	$15,000	A number of trees were blown down on roads just outside of Stelltown.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Delight	$10,000	Flooding occurred along Arkansas Highway 26 in and around Delight.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	$5,000	Several trees were blown down inside Delight.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	$1,000	Large limbs were blown down in the Delight area.
June 2023	Hail	Delight	-	Golf ball sized hail fell near Delight.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	-	Trees were blown down on Highway 26 near Delight.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Delight	-	Heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding just to the south of Delight, along Highway 195. The road was impassible for a few hours due to the high water conditions.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a number of trees around Delight.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree and a power pole.
May 1998	Flash Flood	Delight	-	Heavy rains caused flash flooding in Delight. Several streets were underwater for a period of time. No significant damage occurred.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
October 1993	Hail	Delight	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
April 2012	Hail	Delight	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Delight	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Delight	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Delight	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Delight	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Delight	-	no account filed
February 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Delight	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Delight	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Delight	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Delight	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001381 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pike County	All 9 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.