Camp Ouachita Girl Scout Camp Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Camp Ouachita Girl Scout Camp Historic District encompasses a campground area built by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s on the northern shore of Lake Sylvia, a man-made lake in the eastern part of Ouachita National Forest. The center of the campground, including its Great Hall and administration buildings, is located at the northern tip of Lake Sylvia, with cabins, comfort facilities, and other infrastructure arrayed around the northern and western sides of the lake.”
Wikipedia article Camp Ouachita Girl Scout Camp Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Area surrounding and N of Lake Sylvia, Ouachita NF, Paron, 72126
When was it listed? February 1992
Category. district
Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
Township. Maumelle township
National Register reference number. 90001826 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Camp Ouachita Girl Scout Camp Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,934 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 41 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	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	17
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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 2012	Natural	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2006	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	LAKE SYLVIA
9 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2004	Natural	4.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	HWY 9

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Camp Ouachita Girl Scout Camp Historic District: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Quartz. 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	Recorded
Kuhn Mine	Quartz	Producer	1987, 1989
Hester Prospect	Silica	Unknown
J.T.Willis	Silica	Unknown
Lake Sylvia Prospect	Silica	Unknown
Monro Johnson	Silica	Unknown

Every working recorded in Perry 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 90001826 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perry County	All 15 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.