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Photograph of Crowley's Ridge State Park-Comfort Station
Photograph by Colinhester, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Crowley's Ridge State Park-Comfort Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Crowley's Ridge State Park Comfort Station is a historic visitor facility at Crowley's Ridge State Park, in Greene County, Arkansas. Located in the campground section of the park, it is a single-story log structure with a gable roof, in which are latrine facilities.”

Wikipedia article Crowley's Ridge State Park-Comfort Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Crowley's Ridge State Park--Comfort Station - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Campground and cabin area access rd., Crowley's Ridge State Park, Walcott, 72450
  • When was it listed? May 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Crowley's Ridge township
  • National Register reference number. 92000538 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Crowley's Ridge State Park-Comfort Station between 1999 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2007Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Crowley's Ridge State Park-Comfort Station: 5 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
UnkIronOccurrence
Cooper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dwyer Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Paragould PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walcott, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
February 2018Thunderstorm WindWalcott$75,000Roofs were blown off two barns near Highway 168 and County Road 310.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindWalcott$50,000no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWalcott$10,000A barn was damaged and car windows were blown out.
July 1995Tornado (F0)Walcott$10,000A tornado touched down just south of Walcott. A mobile home was overturned and several large trees were snapped off.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWalcott$5,000Trees blocking the road at Highways 141 and 358.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindWalcott$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees. One tree fell onto a house.
January 2000HailWalcott$750Hail ranged in size from nickle in Walcott to golfball just west of Paragould.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWalcott$500A few trees were knocked down.
March 1995HailWalcott$100no account filed
June 2001HailWalcott$50no account filed
October 2004HailWalcott$10no account filed
June 2001HailWalcott$10no account filed
April 2022HailWalcott-Golf ball-sized hail fell in Walcott.
May 2018Flash FloodWalcott-State Road 141 closed near Walcott due to flooding.
June 2011HailWalcott-Quarter size hail fell on Highway 141 just south of Walcott.
June 2010Flash FloodWalcott-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Finch. Several roads were flooded as a result.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWalcott-Straight line winds blew trees down 2-3 miles north of the A+P Food Store, southwest of Walcott.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindWalcott-A trained spotter estimated the winds between 60 and 70 mph in Lorado.
May 2025HailWalcott-no account filed
March 2024HailWalcott-no account filed
March 2024HailWalcott-no account filed
December 2008Thunderstorm WindWalcott-no account filed
March 1995HailWalcott-no account filed
June 1994HailWalcott-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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

4 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
Crowley's Ridge State Park-Bridge0.2 miles1992
Crowley's Ridge State Park-Bathhouse0.3 miles1992
Crowley's Ridge State Park-Dining Hall0.4 miles1992
Old Bethel Methodist Church2.1 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000538 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene CountyAll 18 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.