Durham School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Durham School was a historic schoolhouse on Durham Road in Durham, Arkansas. It was a single-story Craftsman style stone structure, with a gable roof, and entrances at the opposite gable ends.”
Wikipedia article Durham School (Durham, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rd. 183, Durham, 72727
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
Township. Durham township
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 92001121 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Durham School between 1998 and 2017, burning about 192 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 June 2012	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2009	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 April 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durham, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 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
July 2018	Hail	Durham	$20,000	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Durham	$15,000	no account filed
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power poles.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew a few trees down.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	Large tree limbs were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew several trees down.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
White River Bridge at Elkins	3.8 miles	2008
Stokenbury Cemetery	4.8 miles	2010
Maguire-Williams House	5.4 miles	1995
Tom Smith House	6.1 miles	1992
Adrian Fletcher House	7.7 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001121 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 160 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.
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.