Photograph of Knob School — Photograph by Colinhester, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Knob School-Masonic Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Knob School, also called the Masonic Lodge, is a historic school and Masonic lodge building on Arkansas Highway 141 in Knob, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure with a hip roof, and a single-story extension to the front with a hip roof and a recessed porch.”
Wikipedia article Knob School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Knob School--Masonic Lodge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. AR 141, Knob, 72436
When was it listed? May 1991
Category. building
Township. Knob township
National Register reference number. 91000679 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Knob School-Masonic Lodge between 1997 and 2018, burning about 186 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
12 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 March 2010	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Clay 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 Knob School-Masonic Lodge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Smoots Sand & Gravel Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knob, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Knob	$5,000	Several utility poles were knocked down.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Scatterville Cemetery	7.6 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000679 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay County	All 19 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.