Argenta Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Argenta Historic District encompasses significant historic elements of central North Little Rock, Arkansas. The area that is now central North Little Rock was known as Argenta when it was first settled, and remained unincorporated until it was annexed to Little Rock in 1890.”
Wikipedia article Argenta Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 383 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly, Melrose Cir. and Willow St. S to W. 4th St., and Main St. from W. 6th St. to W. 3rd St., North Little Rock, 72114
When was it listed? March 1993
Category. district
Township. Hill township
National Register reference number. 93000094 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Argenta Historic District between 2007 and 2019, burning about 78 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	10
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
22 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 June 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Argenta Historic District: 11 unknowns, 10 producers, 2 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Construction Products Division	Vermiculite	Producer
Little Rock Plant	Aluminum, Clay	Unknown
Arkansas Calcine Mill	Clay	Producer
Hoffman	Clay	Producer
Big Sandy No. 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North Little Rock Plant and Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown S & G Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Bruton Deposit	Aluminum	Unknown
Bruton Extension	Aluminum	Unknown
Dixie Extension Deposit	Aluminum	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

60 of 71 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Little Rock, the town this property stands in, in 71 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 29 hail, 26 thunderstorm wind, 11 flash flood, 3 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	1 hurt	no account filed
August 2011	Lightning	North Little Rock	$175,000	Lightning struck a house on East C Ave. in the Park Hill neighborhood of North Little Rock, setting it on fire. The house was badly damaged. A firefighter was injured battling the blaze.
December 2009	Flood	North Little Rock	$100,000	Numerous streets were flooded in the Dark Hollow neighborhood of North Little Rock. Yards were covered in water, and the North Little Rock Fire Department evacuated about 20 people from their homes.
May 2015	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	$50,000	The intersection of Chester Street and La Harpe Boulevard west of the River Market area of Downtown Little Rock was flooded. Some cars had stalled in the high water.
July 2007	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	$50,000	The local emergency manager reported flooding on Riverfront Drive, Parker, and Pike Avenue. Several homes at 7th and Division were surrounded by water. Several vehicles stalled in the high water.
June 1998	Lightning	North Little Rock	$40,000	no account filed
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	$25,000	A number of power lines were blown down in North Little Rock.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	$25,000	no account filed
June 2009	Lightning	North Little Rock	$5,000	A lightning strike took a chunk of concrete off the side column on North Little Rock High School's midsection tower.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	$5,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	A tree and power lines were reported down at 5th and Orange St. in North Little Rock.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	Tree limbs were blown down in Argenta.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	Trained spotter reported 60 mph wind gusts on East 5th Street in North Little Rock.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	Three large trees were uprooted at Dickey-Stephens Park in downtown North Little Rock.
March 2008	Hail	North Little Rock	-	Hail covered the ground in North Little Rock, with the largest pieces being penny sized.
April 2008	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	-	Flash flooding was reported at the intersection of Riverfront Drive and Main Street.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	A large pecan tree was down.
September 2007	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	-	Street flooding was reported at the 3600 block of John F. Kennedy Blvd. and on Pershing at the railroad underpass.
July 2007	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	-	A few streets were barricaded due to high water.
May 2006	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	-	Heavy rainfall, produced by slow moving thunderstorms, produced flash flooding in portions of North Little Rock. A number of streets in the city were impassible for several hours due to high water levels from runoff.
January 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines and damaged the roof of a building in downtown North Little Rock.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees and power lines about 3 miles east of North Little Rock.
August 2005	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	-	Heavy rains flooded several streets in North Little Rock.
June 2004	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	-	Several roads were briefly flooded to due heavy rainfall.
November 2004	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	-	Heavy rainfall produced significant street flooding in North Little Rock. A number of city streets were impassible due to high water and a police sub-station also flooded.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some large trees.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
July 1995	Hail	North Little Rock	-	Lightning struck a power pole in the parking lot at the National Weather Service. The lightning travelled into the office and damaged some electronic equipment.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines.
June 1995	Hail	North Little Rock	-	Hail up to golf ball-size fell at a number of locations in the Little Rock metro area.
June 1995	Hail	North Little Rock	-	Hail up to golf ball-size fell at a number of locations in the Little Rock metro area.
April 2011	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
April 2006	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
November 2004	Flash Flood	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
February 2001	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
February 2001	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
February 1999	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
March 1999	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
March 1999	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	North Little Rock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Argenta Historic District (Boundary Increase II)	under 500 feet	2007
First Presbyterian Church Manse	under 500 feet	1993
Hodge-Cook House	under 500 feet	1993
Argenta Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.1 miles	2002
Baker House	0.1 miles	1978
Rapillard House	0.1 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000094 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski County	All 383 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.