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Valley Springs School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Valley Springs School is a historic school building at 1 School Street in Valley Springs, Arkansas. Now part of a larger school complex, it is a single-story fieldstone structure with a wide south-facing facade, and a gable-on-hip roof.”

Wikipedia article Valley Springs School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Boone 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. 1 School St., Valley Springs, 72601
  • When was it listed? September 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
  • Township. Jefferson township
  • National Register reference number. 92001204 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Valley Springs School between 1997 and 2018, burning about 938 acres in total. 1 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 burning11
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1999Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Valley Springs School: 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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
Mc Clinton Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Starkey MineLeadPast Producer
Boone County 5-0 Quarry & CrushingStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mcclinton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley Springs, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 1995: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 1995Thunderstorm WindValley Springs-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
June 1995HailValley Springs-no account filed
November 1995HailValley Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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

4 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
Missouri and North Arkansas Depot-Bellefonte4.3 miles1992
Everton School4.8 miles1992
Twelve Oaks7.2 miles2010
Rose Hill Cemetery7.9 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001204 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boone CountyAll 21 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.