Magazine City Hall-Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Magazine City Hall-Jail is a historic government building at the northwest corner of Garland and Priddy Streets in Magazine, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of rusticated concrete blocks and covered by a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Magazine City Hall-Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1993 · 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. Magazine City Hall--Jail - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NW of jct. of Garland and Priddy Sts., Magazine, 72943
When was it listed? June 1993
Category. building
Township. Reveilee township
National Register reference number. 93000483 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

62 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Magazine City Hall-Jail between 1997 and 2020, burning about 912 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	3

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 1999	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	43 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BLUE MOUNTAIN #2
19 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magazine, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 hail, 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2020	Hail	Magazine	-	Dime to quarter size hail was reported in Magazine.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Magazine	-	A twitter report showed a large hardwood tree snapped near the town of Magazine. The report was relayed via broadcast media.
May 2017	Hail	Magazine	-	Baseball size hail was reported southwest of Paris, AR.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Magazine	-	Power lines were downed.
April 2005	Hail	Magazine	-	Several vehicles and campers were damaged by golfball sized hail at Mt. Magazine State Park.
November 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Magazine	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
June 1995	Hail	Magazine	-	Hail up to dime-size covered the ground.
April 2015	Hail	Magazine	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Magazine	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Magazine	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Magazine	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Magazine	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Magazine	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Magazine	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Magazine	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Petit Jean River Bridge	3.7 miles	1995
John Gabriel Fort House	5.7 miles	1996
Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Depot	5.8 miles	1978
Bank of Booneville Building	6.4 miles	1978
Farmers and Merchants Bank-Masonic Lodge	6.4 miles	1993
Booneville Commercial Historic District	6.4 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000483 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 44 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.