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Photograph of Devil's Den State Park
Photograph by jaystout, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Devil's Den State Park Historic District

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Devil's Den State Park is a 2,200-acre (890 ha) Arkansas state park in Washington County, near West Fork, Arkansas in the United States. Park amenities were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, beginning in 1933.”

Wikipedia article Devil's Den State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1994 · category: District · built in 1933, by Civilian Conservation Corps.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. AR 74 W of Winslow, Winslow, 72774
  • When was it listed? July 1994
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Cove Creek township
  • When was it built? 1933
  • Architect. Civilian Conservation Corps
  • National Register reference number. 92000071 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Devil's Den State Park Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,226 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,800 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWAS17879233
9 April 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2015Debris and open burning13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winslow, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
June 2023HailWinslow$25,000Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindWinslow$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous trees and power lines.
February 2005Thunderstorm WindWinslow$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs and peeled several shingles off the roof of a home.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWinslow$100Thunderstorm winds blew several trees down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWinslow$100Large tree branches blown down
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWinslow$100no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWinslow$100no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWinslow-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph in the Winslow area.
April 2011Flash FloodWinslow-Several roads off of I-540 north of Winslow were flooded.
April 2011Flash FloodWinslow-Numerous county roads were flooded and several low water bridges were impassable.
April 2011Flash FloodWinslow-Portions of Highway 71 near Winslow and Brentwood were flooded. Large rises were also noted on other creeks and streams in southern Washington County.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWinslow-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWinslow-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down large trees.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWinslow-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree limb.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWinslow-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 1999HailWinslow-Location: Devil's Den State Park
April 2015HailWinslow-no account filed
May 2010HailWinslow-no account filed
June 2009HailWinslow-no account filed
April 2008HailWinslow-no account filed
March 2006HailWinslow-no account filed
April 2006HailWinslow-no account filed
April 2006HailWinslow-no account filed
September 2006HailWinslow-no account filed
February 2005HailWinslow-no account filed
May 2004HailWinslow-no account filed
July 2003HailWinslow-no account filed
May 2003HailWinslow-no account filed
May 2003HailWinslow-no account filed
August 2001HailWinslow-no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindWinslow-no account filed
May 1998HailWinslow-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWinslow-no account filed
April 1995HailWinslow-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWinslow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Butterfield Overland Mail Route Segment5.3 miles2010
Winslow Commercial Historic District7.0 miles2022

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000071 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 160 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.