McRae Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The McRae Jail is a former local jail on East First Street in McRae, Arkansas. It is a small single-story masonry structure, built out of cast concrete.”
Wikipedia article McRae Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1992 · 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.
Address. E. First St., McRae, 72102
When was it listed? July 1992
Category. building
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Gum Springs township
National Register reference number. 91001344 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

47 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of McRae Jail between 1998 and 2020, burning about 804 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 1998	Smoking	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McRae, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McRae	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
June 1995	Hail	McRae	-	Hail up to quarter-size damaged roofs and broke windows at Floyd.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Caldwell House	0.1 miles	1991
Booth-Weir House	0.6 miles	1991
Childers Farmstead	1.4 miles	1992
Emmett McDonald House	1.5 miles	1992
William Thomas Abington House	4.1 miles	1992
Smith-Moore House	4.2 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001344 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White County	All 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.
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.