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Photograph of Henry W. Klotz Sr. Service Station
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Henry W. Klotz Sr. Service Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Service Station is a historic automotive service building of Henry W. Klotz Sr. on West First Street in Russell, Arkansas.”

Wikipedia article Henry W. Klotz Sr. Service Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White 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. Klotz, Henry W., Sr., Service Station - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. W. First St., Russell, 72139
  • When was it listed? September 1991
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. White County MPS
  • Township. Liberty township
  • National Register reference number. 91001273 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

91 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Henry W. Klotz Sr. Service Station between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,814 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2004Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Henry W. Klotz Sr. Service Station: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Russell, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011HailRussell-Golf ball size hail fell in the area around Russell.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Russell-A tornado touched down for only a few seconds in an open field on a hilltop. A resident on Robert Lane witnessed the tornado.
September 2007Flash FloodRussell-Several county roads were flooded around Russell.
July 1997Flash FloodRussell-Heavy rains resulted in some flash flooding in Russell. Several county roads were covered with high water for a short period of time.

Every storm recorded in White 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Henry Klotz Sr. Houseunder 500 feet1992
Russell Jail0.1 miles1992
Weber House0.2 miles1991
Harvey Lea House0.2 miles1992
Howard O'Neal Barn0.6 miles1992
Williams, Arthur, Homestead, Feed Storage Shed4.6 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001273 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White CountyAll 203 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.