Arkansas County Courthouse-Northern District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Arkansas County Courthouse for the Northern District is located at East 3rd and College Streets in Stuttgart, Arkansas, the seat of the northern district of Arkansas County. It is a two-story Classical Revival brick structure resting on a raised basement.”
Wikipedia article Arkansas County Courthouse-Northern District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Arkansas 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.
Listed as. Arkansas County Courthouse--Northern District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Jct. of E. 3rd and S. College Sts., SW corner, Stuttgart, 72160
When was it listed? November 1992
Category. building
Township. Gum Pond township
National Register reference number. 92001621 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Arkansas County Courthouse-Northern District between 1999 and 2017, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 April 2005	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Arkansas 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 Arkansas County Courthouse-Northern District: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Arkansas County

Storms near this property

60 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stuttgart, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 30 thunderstorm wind, 27 hail, 8 flash flood, 2 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
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$1,500,000	Numerous large trees were down. Also, 30 to 40 homes were damaged by trees.
May 2011	Flood	Stuttgart	$1,000,000	Parts of Arkansas Highways 1, 17, 144, and 146 were closed due to flooding. Lock 2, in a canal connecting the Arkansas and White Rivers, was closed more than two weeks. The lock was forced shut after the overflowing White and Mississippi rivers rose to levels greater than that on the Arkansas. This prevented the canal from emptying into the Mississippi. As a result, barge traffic on the Arkansas was stalled, being unable to reach the Mississippi. Flooding in Arkansas County continued into June.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$650,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large trees and power lines. Nine houses suffered major damage and five houses had minor damage due to the falling trees. The major area of damage encompassed more than 90 blocks in Stuttgart.
June 2021	Flash Flood	Stuttgart	$100,000	There was widespread flooding of the roads across the area. Several businesses were flooded with numerous cars stranded as well.
April 2011	Flood	Stuttgart	$100,000	Widespread areal flooding occurred. A portion of Arkansas Highway 17 was closed from the afternoon of the 30th through the end of the month.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$75,000	Trees were blown down, causing damage to some houses.
January 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and power lines.
February 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and power lines, as well as a few highway signs.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$30,000	Trees were blown down, as were a couple of power lines. One house was damaged by a falling tree.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$15,000	A power pole was blown down onto a car and several tree limbs were knocked down.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$10,000	A tree was blown down onto a house.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$10,000	Trees were blown down in downtown Stuttgart.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$7,000	Trees and power lines were reported down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$5,000	Some power lines were blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some tree limbs.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	Several trees were blown down across the town of Stuttgart.
May 2025	Hail	Stuttgart	-	Hen egg sized hail was measured in Stuttgart.
May 2025	Hail	Stuttgart	-	Quarter sized hail fell just north of Stuttgart via mPing.
May 2024	Hail	Stuttgart	-	Quarter-sized hail fell in the community of Stuttgart.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	A picture on social media showed a large tree, over a foot in diameter, down on a road in Stuttgart.
March 2021	Hail	Stuttgart	-	Two inch hail was measured, and picture shared on social media.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	Power poles were knocked down throughout the city of Stuttgart.
December 2017	Flash Flood	Stuttgart	-	A parking lot and nearby areas were flooded. A car was submerged in water and needed a high water rescue.
March 2016	Flash Flood	Stuttgart	-	Social Media showed a picture of water flowing over 9th street in Stuttgart.
July 2009	Heavy Rain	Stuttgart	-	The Stuttgart reporting station broke the record for the greatest rainfall ever recorded in the month of July.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	Large tree limbs were reported down in the area.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Stuttgart	-	Street flooding was reported in Stuttgart.
April 2005	Flash Flood	Stuttgart	-	Heavy rains flooded parts of Highway 153 east of Stuttgart. The highway was blocked for about an hour due to the high water levels.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines and large tree limbs.
November 2004	Flash Flood	Stuttgart	-	Heavy rains produced flash flooding in Stuttgart. A number of city streets were covered by 1 to 2 feet of water for a few hours.
December 2002	Tornado (F0)	Stuttgart	-	A weak tornado (F0) touched down 5.5 miles south of Stuttgart and moved to the northeast for 3 miles before lifting. Damage along the track of the tornado consisted of a carport blown into a field, some shingles taken off several roofs and pieces of tin peeled off a few barns.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. A number of carports and storage sheds were also damaged.
May 1995	Hail	Stuttgart	-	Hail up to dime-size fell for several minutes and damaged some crops.
June 1994	Hail	Stuttgart	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some tree limbs.
March 2023	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
December 2021	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
May 2010	Funnel Cloud	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
March 2000	Flash Flood	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
May 2000	Flash Flood	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuttgart	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arkansas 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

5 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
Stuttgart Commercial Historic District	under 500 feet	2007
Riceland Hotel	under 500 feet	1986
US Post Office-Stuttgart	0.1 miles	2004
Standard Ice Company Building	0.1 miles	1979
Paul and Ella Buerkle House	0.5 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001621 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arkansas County	All 24 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.