Oak Grove School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Oak Grove School is a historic school building in rural eastern Grant County, Arkansas. It is located on the south side of United States Route 270, about 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Sheridan, and is now home to the Center Grove United Methodist Church.”
Wikipedia article Oak Grove School (Grant County, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1991 · 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. US 270, 6 mi. E of Sheridan, Oak Grove Community, 72150
When was it listed? June 1991
Category. building
Township. Washington township
National Register reference number. 91000693 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

161 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove School between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,492 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 48 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	66
Arson/incendiarism	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Natural	6
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 Oak Grove School: 7 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Jefferson County Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
McKenzie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Glaser-Kelly House	6.9 miles	1992
Dr. John L. Butler House	6.9 miles	1986
Koon House #1	7.3 miles	1999
Koon House #3	7.5 miles	1999
Koon House #4	7.5 miles	1999
Koon House #2	7.5 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000693 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant County	All 10 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.