Alco School

Built in 1938. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Alco School is a former educational facility located just north of Arkansas Highway 66 in rural western Stone County, Arkansas, not far from the hamlet of Alco. It is a single-story stone structure, with a hip roof that has two eyebrow dormers.”
Wikipedia article Alco School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1938.

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. Just N of AR 66, Alco, 72680
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
District. District 3
When was it built? 1938
National Register reference number. 92001125 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Alco School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,542 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
29 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	FLAT
15 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	GARAGE
11 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PAUL
10 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	32 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ROASTING SET 2

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alco School: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Stone	Producer
Unk	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this property

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alco, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Alco	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds twisted and broke off several trees.
March 2023	Tornado (EF2)	Alco	-	This tornado started just south of Arkansas Hwy 66 near Alco,\|moving northeast towards Arkansas Hwy 263 between Onia and Timbo.\|After crossing the Arkansas Hwy 263, it ripped the roof off a\|house and moved this house off the foundation. The tornado then\|moved northeast crossing Big Springs Road, uprooting several\|trees. The tornado then lifted just northeast of here before\|Clearwater Road. This tornado was rated an EF2 with estimated maximum winds of 111 mph.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Alco	-	Personal instrument owned by public recorded a 63 mph wind gust.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Alco	-	The rainfall amount was estimated over the past 1 to 2 hours. Estimated rainfall was 3 inches.
July 1996	Hail	Alco	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Newton Sutterfield Farmstead	1.8 miles	2003
Bluff Springs Church and School	2.6 miles	1985
Jim Morris Barn	3.8 miles	1985
Wesley Copeland House	4.5 miles	1985
George Anderson House	5.1 miles	1985
Orvall Gammill Barn	5.7 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001125 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stone County	All 58 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.