Immaculate Heart of Mary School

Built in 1925 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Immaculate Heart of Mary School is a historic school building on the campus of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in northern Pulaski County, Arkansas. It is located off Arkansas Highway 365, north of North Little Rock and east of Marche.”
Wikipedia article Immaculate Heart of Mary School (Marche, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 383 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1925, American Craftsman.

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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off AR 365, N of Blue Hill Rd., Marche
When was it listed? September 1993
Category. building
Township. Hill township
When was it built? 1925
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 93000965 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

50 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Immaculate Heart of Mary School between 1998 and 2018, burning about 1,845 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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
Arson/incendiarism	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Smoking	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2006	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marche, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash 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 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marche	$50,000	Numerous trees were blown down, with some of the trees landing on houses.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Marche	$5,000	Two power poles were snapped off.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marche	$5,000	A tree was blown down, and the falling tree knocked down a power pole and power lines.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marche	$5,000	Trees were snapped off or uprooted.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marche	$3,000	Several small trees were blown down.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Marche	$1,000	Large limbs were blown down.
January 2024	Hail	Marche	-	Quarter sized hail fell in the town of Marche, AR.
June 2023	Tornado (EFU)	Marche	-	A few photos of a tornado, all approximately co-located, is likely the only documentation we will have of a tornado that occurred near much stronger and impactful straight line wind damage. The tornado most likely occurred over a remote, heavily treed area within Camp Robinson. Due to widespread wind damage from 80+ mph winds in the area, the damage associated with the weaker spin-off tornado in not detectable. This brief tornado will be classified as an EF-U due to a lack of surveyable evidence. It was likely active for less than one minute.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Marche	-	A tree was down on Interstate 40.
February 2018	Flash Flood	Marche	-	Students were rescued from a school bus that drove off a flooded road.
April 2017	Heavy Rain	Marche	-	The 24 hour rainfall was 5.38 inches.
March 2016	Flash Flood	Marche	-	Public reported that highway 365 in Marche was covered by flash flooding and impassible.
September 2015	Heavy Rain	Marche	-	A rainfall amount of 2.10 inches fell in less than an hour.
August 2012	Heavy Rain	Marche	-	Rainfall measured 2.68 inches in 3 hours.
March 2011	Hail	Marche	-	Hail up to half-dollar size fell with such a loud noise that the person was unable to hear on the telephone. The hail covered 90% of the ground.
April 2010	Hail	Marche	-	Hail at Marche was reported as being from pea to jelly bean size.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marche	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
April 2011	Hail	Marche	-	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marche	-	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
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church	0.1 miles	1982
Maumelle Ordnance Works Bunker #4	4.4 miles	2006
Lloyd England Hall	4.7 miles	1997
Pyeatte-Mason Cemetery	4.8 miles	1996
Frenchman's Mountain Methodist Episcopal Church-South and Cemetery	5.6 miles	1976
St. Joseph's Home	5.7 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000965 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.
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.