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One of 95 National Register listings published here for Garland County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Carpenter Dam
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1398 Carpenter Dam Rd., Hot Springs, 71901
- When was it listed? September 1992
- Category. structure
- Township. Lake Hamilton township
- National Register reference number. 92001083 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
86 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Carpenter Dam between 1997 and 2020, burning about 290 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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 | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1998 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Carpenter Dam: 7 producers, 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vanadium, Silica, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Power and Light Company Property | Fluorine-Fluorite, Pyrite | Past Producer | ||
| Chamberlain Creek | Barium-Barite | Producer | ||
| No Name | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Hot Springs Mill | Silica | Producer | ||
| Mc Earl Mine | Silica | Producer | ||
| Potash Sulfur Springs | Niobium (Columbium) | Occurrence | ||
| Wilson Springs Vanadium Deposit | Vanadium, Niobium (Columbium) | Past Producer | 1950, 1967 | |
| Potash Sulfur Springs | Vanadium | Producer | 1960, 1966, 1983 | |
| Union Carbide Pit | Vanadium | Producer | ||
| Hot Spring City Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
26 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hot Springs, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Hot Springs | $5,000 | Golf ball-size hail broke several car windshields. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | $500 | The tops of some trees were broken off. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | $500 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree that blocked a road in Hot Springs. |
| October 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | - | Winds gusted to 69 mph at the Hot Springs Airport. Some tree limbs were also blown down. |
| October 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees. |
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | - | Several trees were blown down, resulting in power outages. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees in the western part of Hot Springs. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | - | Some trees were blown down. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | Lightning struck an apartment building in Hot Springs which resulted in a fire. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hot Springs | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down some tree limbs. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Hot Springs | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Humphrey's Dairy Farm | 1.7 miles | 2012 |
 | King-Neimeyer-Mathis House | 2.5 miles | 2002 |
| City Cemetery | 2.8 miles | 2021 | |
 | Hollywood Cemetery, Confederate Section | 3.2 miles | 1996 |
 | Belding-Gaines Cemetery | 3.2 miles | 1993 |
 | Van Lyell House | 3.4 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92001083 in Record Group 79. |
| Garland County | All 95 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.