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Photograph of Clear Springs Tabernacle
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Clear Springs Tabernacle

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Clear Springs Tabernacle is a historic church revival building at the junction of Arkansas Highway 26 and Bobo Road, northeast of Antoine in rural Clark County, Arkansas. It is an open-air wood-frame structure with a metal roof, built in 1887 by the Christian Camp Ground Association.”

Wikipedia article Clear Springs Tabernacle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clark 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. Jct. of AR 26 and Bobo Rd., Okolona, 71962
  • When was it listed? February 1992
  • Category. building
  • Township. Caddo township
  • National Register reference number. 92000057 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

61 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Clear Springs Tabernacle between 1993 and 2018, burning about 668 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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 burning21
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Natural250 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance102 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Natural30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Clear Springs Tabernacle: 9 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
Arkansas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Delight PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Okolona, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 6 deaths and 100 injuries. 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
March 1997Tornado (F4)Okolona6 killed, 100 hurt, $120,000,000no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F3)Okolona$1,800,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindOkolona$50,000Trees and power lines were blown down, and some chicken houses were damaged.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindOkolona$50,000One home and several outbuildings received minor damage on Campground Road. Also, trees were reported down in the area.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOkolona$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindOkolona$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindOkolona$2,000A couple of trees and some large limbs were blown down in the Okolona area.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindOkolona$50Part of a tree fell onto a road, striking a vehicle and breaking its windshield. The motorist was not injured.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindOkolona-Trees and power lines were downed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOkolona-Tree limbs were down.
April 2008HailOkolona-Penny sized hail covered the ground.
July 2006Flash FloodOkolona-High water was reported covering Smyrna Road.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindOkolona-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees around Okolona.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindOkolona-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
June 1995HailOkolona-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and damaged a metal storage building.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindOkolona-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and damaged a metal storage building.
April 1994HailOkolona-Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
May 2009HailOkolona-no account filed
April 2008HailOkolona-no account filed
May 2002HailOkolona-no account filed
May 2001HailOkolona-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindOkolona-no account filed
August 1998HailOkolona-no account filed
May 1998HailOkolona-no account filed
May 1996HailOkolona-no account filed
May 1996HailOkolona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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

2 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
Dr. Boaz House1.6 miles1992
Okolona Colored High School Gymnasium5.1 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000057 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark CountyAll 43 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.