Woodlawn School Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Woodlawn School Building is a historic former school building near the junction of Bizzell Road and Arkansas Highway 31 in Woodlawn, Lonoke County, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, built with Craftsman styling in 1921.”
Wikipedia article Woodlawn School Building (Woodlawn, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Lonoke County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NW of jct. of Bizzell Rd. and AR 31, Woodlawn, 72007
When was it listed? February 1993
Category. building
Township. Oak Grove township
National Register reference number. 93000086 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Woodlawn School Building between 1998 and 2017, burning about 433 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 June 1998	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 June 1998	Debris and open burning	127 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 March 2015	Debris and open burning	32 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 February 2015	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lonoke County

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodlawn, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodlawn	$10,000	Many trees were blown down.
January 2019	Lightning	Woodlawn	$1,000	Lightning struck a house on Bethlehem Rd. causing minor damage. There were no injuries.
March 2026	Hail	Woodlawn	-	Penny sized hail fell near the community of Woodlawn.
August 2024	Hail	Woodlawn	-	Nickel sized hail fell in the community of Woodlawn.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodlawn	-	Trees fell across Highway 236 one mile SSW of Woodlawn, blocking the road.
April 2019	Flash Flood	Woodlawn	-	Sheriff's office reported portions of Highway 31 near Woodlawn are flooded. Additionally, numerous back roads across Lonoke County are inundated at this time.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Woodlawn	-	Highway 31 flooded with swift moving water over the road.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodlawn	-	Trees and power lines blown down.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodlawn	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
July 2012	Hail	Woodlawn	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodlawn	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Woodlawn	-	no account filed
December 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodlawn	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lonoke 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery	6.2 miles	1996
	Sears House	6.5 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000086 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lonoke County	All 32 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.