Liberty School Cafeteria

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Liberty School Cafeteria is a historic school building in rural Faulkner County, Arkansas. It is located on the west side of Arkansas Highway 36, about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) north of its junction with United States Route 64, about midway between Conway and Vilonia.”
Wikipedia article Liberty School Cafeteria, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Faulkner 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. AR 36 N of jct. with US 64, Hamlet, 72032
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
Township. Eagle township
National Register reference number. 92001195 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

80 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Liberty School Cafeteria between 1998 and 2020, burning about 612 acres in total. None 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	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2000	Smoking	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Faulkner County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Liberty School Cafeteria: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
	Unk	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this property

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamlet, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 13 injuries. 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
December 2002	Tornado (F3)	Hamlet	1 killed, 13 hurt	A strong tornado was spawned over Faulkner County about 1 mile north of Hamlet. The tornado moved to the northeast for approximately 9.8 miles before lifting 0.8 mile east-southeast of Enola. A number of homes, both permanent and mobile, were either damaged or destroyed along the path of the tornado. An 84 year-old woman was killed when her mobile home was destroyed. 13 others sustained injuries. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A power substation was also damaged.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Hamlet	$25,000	Roads were closed at Arkansas Highway 89 and Saltillo, Lower Ridge Road and U.S. Highway 64, 200 block of Arkansas Highway 36 and in front of 286 Crooked Creek. Roads closed in Conway were Tyler Street and Polkein Street.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamlet	$20,000	A tree was blown down on a house on Rolling Creek Circle. There were no injuries.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamlet	$20,000	Trees were blown down onto a store.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamlet	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamlet	$1,000	A power pole was snapped and blocked traffic on US Highway 64.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamlet	$1,000	Large limbs were snapped off trees.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamlet	-	A home in the neighborhood of Pickles Gap had two trees which fell onto the residence.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamlet	-	Tree limbs of 3 to 4 inches in diameter were snapped near the community of Hamlet.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Hamlet	-	Multiple homes along Dee Lane, just east of the city of Conway were flooded. Additionally, multiple roads were flooded throughout the county.
February 2023	Flash Flood	Hamlet	-	Several homes were inundated with high water along Brien Dr. as relayed by the Liberty Fire Department near Conway.
November 2015	Flash Flood	Hamlet	-	Lower Ridge and Middle roads were flooded.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamlet	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged a greenhouse that was under construction and also downed a few trees.
May 2010	Funnel Cloud	Hamlet	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Hamlet	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Hamlet	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Hamlet	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulkner 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
Conway Mayes Marker	1.4 miles	2024
Titan II ICBM Launch Complex Site 373-9	5.3 miles	2020
Tyler-Southerland House	5.7 miles	2005
Sellers House	6.0 miles	2005
Oak Grove Cemetery Historic Section	6.9 miles	2009
Michael M. Hiegel House	7.2 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001195 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Faulkner County	All 64 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.