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One of 27 National Register listings published here for Hot Spring County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lake Catherine State Park-Nature Cabin
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Lake Catherine State Park--Nature Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Camping area access rd., Lake Catherine State Park, Shorewood Hills, 71913
- When was it listed? May 1992
- Category. building
- Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
- Township. Fenter township
- National Register reference number. 92000535 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
126 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Lake Catherine State Park-Nature Cabin between 1997 and 2020, burning about 583 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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 | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 September 1998 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2000 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 30 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Lake Catherine State Park-Nature Cabin: 10 producers, 9 past producers, 6 prospects, 2 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Vanadium, Barium-Barite, Titanium, Niobium (Columbium). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Jones Mills Smelter | Aluminum | Plant | ||
| Arkansas Power and Light Company Property | Fluorine-Fluorite, Pyrite | Past Producer | ||
| Christy Brookite Deposit | Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | Brookite | |
| Christy Deposit. | Vanadium, Titanium, Niobium (Columbium) | Prospect | 1890, 1976 | |
| Christy Property | Molybdenum, Titanium, Metal, Niobium (Columbium), Vanadium | Producer | Molybdenite, Rutile | |
| Christy Property | Vanadium, Titanium, Metal | Prospect | 1943, 1984, 1985 | |
| Golden-Estes Property | Molybdenum | Past Producer | ||
| Kimsey Prospect | Niobium (Columbium), Molybdenum | Producer | Brookite, Molybdenite | |
| Magnet Cove Mica Deposit | Mica | Unknown | ||
| Magnet Cove Rutile Mine | Titanium, Metal, Niobium (Columbium) | Producer | Rutile |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cabin No. 1 | 0.3 miles | 1995 |
| Lake Catherine State Park-Cabin No. 2 | 0.3 miles | 1992 | |
| Lake Catherine State Park-Cabin No. 3 | 0.3 miles | 1992 | |
| Couchwood Historic District | 0.7 miles | 2001 | |
 | Lake Catherine State Park-Bridge No. 2 | 1.4 miles | 1992 |
| Remmel Dam | 1.5 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92000535 in Record Group 79. |
| Hot Spring County | All 27 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.