Bates Tourist Court

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Bates Tourist Court is a historic traveler's accommodation on Fair Street in Marshall, Arkansas. The property includes four buildings, three of which are stone-veneered wood-frame cabins.”
Wikipedia article Bates Tourist Court, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Searcy 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Fair St., Marshall, 72650
When was it listed? October 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Searcy County MPS
Township. Bear Creek No. 5 township
National Register reference number. 93000979 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

77 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Bates Tourist Court between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,354 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	19
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
7 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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 Bates Tourist Court: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Searcy County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Searcy County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this property

57 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshall, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 35 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 3 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
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$2,000,000	no account filed
March 2008	Flash Flood	Marshall	$1,200,000	Localized flooding was reported across the county. The Health Department and Civic Center in Marshall had minor flooding in the building, Arkansas Highway 333 at Gilbert was blocked due to flooding. Part of Arkansas Highway 74 near Calf Creek was washed out.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$250,000	Numerous trees were blown down, with some trees landing on houses. A boat was flipped over. Houses and businesses were damaged. There were also reports of trees being blown down in other sections of the county.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn.
January 2007	Flash Flood	Marshall	$31,700	Several roads across Searcy County were flooded due to heavy rainfall.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$15,000	Multiple trees were blown down along U.S. Highway 65.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$10,000	Trees were blown down.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$6,000	Severe thunderstorm winds just over 60 mph downed several trees and damaged the roofs of a few buildings in Marshall.
December 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$5,000	Several trees were blown down in the city of Marshall.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$2,000	A tree was blown down on U.S. 65.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$2,000	A tree was down on U.S. Highway 65.
June 2023	Hail	Marshall	-	Golf ball sized hail fell on the south side of Marshall.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Trees were down on roads across the city.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Debris blocked U.S. Highway 65 just north of Arkansas Highway 74.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto a power line.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Thunderstorm winds tore the roof of a barn.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Thunderstorm winds gusting up to 67 mph, knocked down a few trees.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	The steel framework of a building under construction was blown down at the county airport in Marshall.
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some power lines.
April 1993	Hail	Marshall	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
April 2014	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
April 2004	Flash Flood	Marshall	-	no account filed
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
October 2003	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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
S. A. Lay House	under 500 feet	1993
Dr. Sam G. Daniel House	under 500 feet	1993
Ferguson Gas Station	under 500 feet	1993
Zeb Ferguson House	under 500 feet	1993
Dugger and Schultz Millinery Store Building	under 500 feet	1993
Old Searcy County Jail	under 500 feet	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000979 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Searcy County	All 52 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.