Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-McGehee

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Japanese American Internment Museum, also known as the WWII Japanese American Internment Museum and the Jerome-Rohwer Interpretive Museum & Visitor Center, is a history museum in McGehee, Arkansas. The museum features exhibits regarding the area history of Japanese American internment in the 1940s when more than 17,000 Japanese Americans were housed at nearby Rohwer War Relocation Center and Jerome War Relocation Center during World War II.”
Wikipedia article Japanese American Internment Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Desha 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. Missouri--Pacific Railroad Depot--McGehee - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Railroad St., McGehee, 71654
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Historic Railroad Depots of Arkansas MPS
Township. Bowie township
National Register reference number. 92000616 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-McGehee between 2005 and 2007, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
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
7 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 November 2005	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Desha County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-McGehee: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Savage Nobel Co Van Horn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Scifres A	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Desha County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McGehee, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McGehee	$50,000	Several homes received roof damage. A garage door was also blown off a house.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McGehee	-	Thunderstorm winds caused some roof damage and blew over a storage building.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McGehee	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs and damaged some roofs.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McGehee	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of two storage buildings and two homes in McGehee.
January 1995	Hail	McGehee	-	no account filed
February 1995	Hail	McGehee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Desha 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
McGehee City Jail	under 500 feet	2011
Missouri Pacific Railway Van Noy Eating House	0.1 miles	2011
McGehee Post Office	0.2 miles	2010
Parnell-Sharpe House	0.2 miles	1989
Temple Meir Chayim	0.3 miles	1999
Jay Lewis House	1.0 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000616 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Desha County	All 26 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.