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Photograph of Moorefield School
Photograph by Kennethrorie, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Moorefield School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Moorefield School is a historic former school building on Ham Street in Moorefield, Arkansas. It is a broad rectangular single-story building built out of fieldstone, with a gable-on-hip roof that has exposed rafter ends in the Craftsman style.”

Wikipedia article Moorefield School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Independence County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N side of Ham St., Moorefield, 72501
  • When was it listed? September 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
  • Township. Moorefield township
  • National Register reference number. 92001109 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

37 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Moorefield School between 1998 and 2018, burning about 251 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 April 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Moorefield School: 12 producers, 12 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
BatesvillePlatinum, Limestone, DimensionOccurrenceUnknown
Stone Products CorpMarble, DimensionUnknown
Texas Lime Co PlantLimestone, DimensionProducer
Texas Line Co PitLimestone, DimensionProducer
Arkansas Lime CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Batesville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sheid QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownLimestone
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorefield, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2009Flash FloodMoorefield$75,000Street flooding was reported in Batesville. Water was up to the door handles on cars.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMoorefield$15,000Trees were uprooted in the area.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMoorefield-Some trees were blown down and some homes were damaged.
June 2007Flash FloodMoorefield-Arkansas Highway 233 was closed between Arkansas Highways 25 and 69. Arkansas Highway 69 also experienced flooding east of Batesville. Six people were rescued from vehicles in high water.
April 1996HailMoorefield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Batesville Overpass3.2 miles2021
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church3.8 miles1986
Morrow Hall4.1 miles1972
Mitchell House4.1 miles1982
National Guard Armory4.1 miles1998
Bartlett-Kirk House4.2 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001109 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Independence CountyAll 43 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.