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Photograph of St. Joe Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Joe Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Joe Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot is a historic railroad station on the south side of United States Route 65 in the center of St. It is a typical long rectangular building, with a gable-on-hip roof, and a telegrapher's booth projecting out the north side.”

Wikipedia article St. Joe station, 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. US 65, S side, St. Joe, 72675
  • When was it listed? September 1993
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Historic Railroad Depots of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. St. Joe township
  • National Register reference number. 93000988 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of St. Joe Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,947 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 65 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/incendiarism65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Debris and open burning26
Natural7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Smokingunder an acreBuffalo National RiverDUFFER
15 September 2000Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBuffalo National RiverSAPLING
31 July 1995Smokingunder an acreBuffalo National RiverNORTHSIDE
24 July 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresBuffalo National RiverHANGOVER BLUFF
18 June 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBuffalo National RiverBUCKET FIR
5 May 2014Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionSEA27311610

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of St. Joe Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot: 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buffalo River Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
CopperCopper, ZincProspect
UnkStonePast Producer
Fullbright ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Lockhart MineLead, ZincUnknown
Lucky Dog MineLeadUnknown
San Juan ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Uncle Sam ProsplectLead, ZincOccurrence
Big HurricaneZincPast Producer
Davy CrockettZincPast Producer

Every working 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

5 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Henley Hotel0.2 miles2011
Benjamin Franklin Henley House1.1 miles1985
Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District5.2 miles2000
Mays General Store5.6 miles1983
Gates-Helm Farm7.7 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000988 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Searcy CountyAll 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.