Photograph of Mather Lodge — Photograph by Brandonrush, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Petit Jean State Park-Mather Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Mather Lodge is a historic park facility at Petit Jean State Park in Conway County, Arkansas. It is the centerpiece of the park's developed infrastructure, providing lodging, a meeting and function space, and a restaurant for park visitors.”
Wikipedia article Mather Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Conway 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.
Listed as. Petit Jean State Park--Mather Lodge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main access rd., Petit Jean State Park, Winrock, 72110
When was it listed? May 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
Township. White Eagle township
National Register reference number. 92000521 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Petit Jean State Park-Mather Lodge between 2000 and 2016, burning about 1,842 acres in total. 1 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Natural	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1,401 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Conway 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 Petit Jean State Park-Mather Lodge: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Titanium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Black Sands	Titanium	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Conway 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
Petit Jean State Park-Cabin No. 1	under 500 feet	1992
Petit Jean State Park-Cabin No. 6	under 500 feet	1992
Petit Jean State Park-Cabin No. 16	0.1 miles	1992
Petit Jean State Park-Cabin No. 9	0.1 miles	1992
Petit Jean State Park-Cedar Falls Trail Historic District	0.2 miles	1992
Petit Jean State Park-Culvert No. 1	0.3 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000521 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Conway County	All 50 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.