Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“The Thida Grove School is a historic school building in the rural community of Thida in southern Independence County, Arkansas. Located on the north side of County Road 20, it is a single-story vernacular wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a concrete foundation.”
Wikipedia article Thida Grove School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Independence County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 92001108 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
69 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Thida Grove School
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,583 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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
36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Debris and open burning
13
Smoking
3
Natural
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Thida Grove School: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Thida, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2005: 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 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.
A weak tornado affected areas near Thida in Independence County. The tornado touched down briefly, but caused quite a bit of structural damage. The roofs and underpinnings of two mobile homes were damaged. A third mobile home had similar damage, and its porch was thrown onto a car. A metal building housing an auto repair shop was badly damaged. Eight cars were damaged inside and outside the shop. A farm shed was also damaged and a barn was destroyed. A cattle feeder was thrown into a pond and trees and power lines were downed. Witnesses saw a cow lifted about 20 feet into the air by the tornado.
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
5 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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