Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“The Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-Gurdon is a historic railroad station building at North 1st Street and East Walnut Street in Gurdon, Arkansas. The single-story masonry building was built c. 1917 by the Missouri-Pacific Railroad to house passenger and freight service facilities.”
Wikipedia article Gurdon station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
Also known as. Historic Railroad Depots of Arkansas MPS
Township. Caddo township
National Register reference number. 92000609 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
139 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-Gurdon
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,585 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 23 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
Railroad operations and maintenance
42
Debris and open burning
23
Arson/incendiarism
23
Equipment and vehicle use
21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
19
Natural
7
Recreation and ceremony
2
Smoking
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-Gurdon: 6 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Gurdon, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 28 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 9 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.
Large oak trees were snapped and uprooted. Shingles were removed from several structures and tin roofing was ripped off and thrown 500 feet. Power lines and power poles were knocked down. Several trees fell into an electric substation, knocking out power to most of the Gurdon area. A tractor-trailer truck was blown off the road.
Trees and power lines were blown down around Gurdon. One tree fell on a house. Arkansas Highway 53 and U.S. Highway 67 were blocked by fallen trees, as were a number of county roads.
A severe storm struck Gurdon for the second day in a row, knocking out power once again. Trees and power lines were blown down. One tree fell on U.S. 67 just north of Gurdon while another fell a couple of miles north of town, taking down power, phone, and cable lines. A plate glass window was blown out of a store downtown.
Thunderstorm winds damaged several buildings in downtown Gurdon. The portion of a gas station canopy was blown off and the brick face of a local supermarket also sustained damage. Six cars that were parked at the supermarket were damaged when parts of the brick face came down off the building.
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.
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.
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