Calico Rock Home Economics Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Calico Rock Home Economics Building is a historic school building on 2nd Street in Calico Rock, Arkansas. It is a single-story stone structure with a gable roof and a concrete foundation.”
Wikipedia article Calico Rock Home Economics Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Izard 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. 2nd St., Calico Rock, 72519
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
Township. Union township
National Register reference number. 92001200 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Calico Rock Home Economics Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,607 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 26 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	33
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2011	Smoking	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2000	Natural	9.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CHRIS
11 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Storms near this property

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calico Rock, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 10 flood, 2 flash flood. 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
October 2009	Flash Flood	Calico Rock	$65,000	Significant flooding occurred along County Road 9 and Arkansas Highways 56 and 69. Many other county roads were covered by water.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	$20,000	Trees and power lines were blown down. One of the trees fell on Arkansas 223, blocking a lane. Power outages occurred in the southwest part of town.
May 2011	Flood	Calico Rock	$10,000	no account filed
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	$5,000	A tree fell onto a house.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	$5,000	A few trees were blown down in the Calico Rock area.
April 2011	Flood	Calico Rock	$5,000	no account filed
May 2011	Flood	Calico Rock	$5,000	no account filed
April 2025	Flood	Calico Rock	-	Moderate river flooding was observed at Calico Rock along the White River.
April 2025	Flood	Calico Rock	-	Flooding in Calico Rock.
October 2022	Hail	Calico Rock	-	Delyaed report...We received pictures on social media from near Calico Rock. Time was estimated from radar.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	A tree was blown down on a vehicle and another tree was blown down causing damage to property. Trees were blown down in various locations around Calico Rock.
April 2017	Flood	Calico Rock	-	Flooding was noted on the White River at Calico Rock after heavy rain fell. The flooding began early on 4/30/17.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	Trees were blown down in Calico Rock.
May 2017	Flood	Calico Rock	-	Heavy rainfall in April caused flooding to begin on the White River.
May 2015	Flood	Calico Rock	-	The White River at Calico Rock rose above flood stage during the early morning hours of the 12th, falling back below flood stage that afternoon.
December 2015	Flood	Calico Rock	-	The White River at Calico Rock rose above flood stage during the morning hours on the 28th, falling back below flood stage during the evening hours on the 29th.
April 2014	Hail	Calico Rock	-	Hail as large as 2 inches in diameter fell in the Calico Rock area.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	Large limbs were down in the area.
October 2009	Flood	Calico Rock	-	Flash flooding which began on the 29th became widespread areal flooding on the 30th.
October 2009	Heavy Rain	Calico Rock	-	In Calico Rock, it was the wettest October ever recorded.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
April 2004	Flash Flood	Calico Rock	-	Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur just east of Calico Rock. Several county roads in the area were flooded and impassable for a few hours due to high water levels.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees. One home in Calico Rock also sustained some minor roof damage due to the high winds.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	A large tree limb was blown down on top of a police car.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	Several trees were knocked down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees and road signs.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
May 2020	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
April 2018	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
December 2010	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
February 2001	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Calico Rock	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Calico Rock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Calico Rock Historic District	0.5 miles	1985
Calico Rock Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.5 miles	1989
Calico Rock Methodist Episcopal Church	0.6 miles	2007
Vest Cemetery	6.7 miles	2016
Boswell School	6.9 miles	1992
Sylvester Smith Farmstead	7.2 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001200 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Izard County	All 18 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.