Griffithville School

Built in 1939. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Griffithville School was a historic school building, located on the south side of Arkansas Highway 11 on the west side of Griffithville, Arkansas. Built in 1939, it was the community's only school, and was a fine example of a Craftsman-style school built with Works Progress Administration funding.”
Wikipedia article Griffithville School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1939.

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. AR 11 W of jct. with AR 385, Griffithville, 72060
When was it listed? July 1992
Category. building
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Dogwood township
When was it built? 1939
National Register reference number. 91001357 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Griffithville School between 1998 and 2020, burning about 241 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
9 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2006	Debris and open burning	58 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 May 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 April 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 April 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 April 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White County

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Griffithville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Griffithville	$40,000	A trailer flipped over.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Griffithville	$30,000	A large tree fell on an old house.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Griffithville	$30,000	Trees were down, and one of the trees fell on a mobile home.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Griffithville	$15,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Griffithville	$15,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Griffithville	$15,000	Power poles were blown down.
December 2013	Flood	Griffithville	$10,000	Arkansas 11 was closed due to flooding.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Griffithville	$5,000	A tin roof was torn off an old barn.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Griffithville	-	A power pole was snapped.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Griffithville	-	A power line was knocked down.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Griffithville	-	A tree was blown down on the ground.
August 2012	Heavy Rain	Griffithville	-	Rainfall measured 5.50 inches in 24 hours.
May 2006	Flash Flood	Griffithville	-	no account filed
February 2001	Hail	Griffithville	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Griffithville	-	no account filed

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
J. A. Neaville House	0.3 miles	1992
A. J. Smith House	0.4 miles	1991
Thomas Jefferson Hale General Merchandise Store	6.1 miles	1992
Otha Walker Homestead	6.4 miles	1992
Mary Alice Hammond House	7.1 miles	1992
Robertson House	7.8 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001357 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.