Center Valley Well House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Center Valley Well House is a historic water well building on the grounds of the Center Valley Elementary School on Arkansas Highway 124 in Center Valley, Arkansas. It is an open-walled square stone structure, consisting of low stone walls and corner posts, which support a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof.”
Wikipedia article Center Valley Well House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Pope County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. AR 124, Center Valley, 72802
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. structure
Also known as. Public Schools in the Ozarks MPS
District. District 7
National Register reference number. 92001206 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

83 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Center Valley Well House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2

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	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Center Valley Well House: 12 unknowns, 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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
Bernice	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone	Unknown
Unknown	Stone	Unknown
Unknown	Stone	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Pope County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Pope County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Pope 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
Caraway Hall-Arkansas Tech University	3.7 miles	1992
Threlkeld House	3.7 miles	2000
Girls' Domestic Science and Arts Building-Arkansas Tech University	3.8 miles	1992
Physical Education Building-Arkansas Tech University	3.8 miles	1992
Wilson Hall-Arkansas Tech University	3.9 miles	1992
Hughes Hall-Arkansas Tech University	4.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001206 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pope County	All 38 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.