Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The Izard County Courthouse is located at Courthouse Square and Arkansas Highway 69 in Melbourne, the county seat of Izard County, Arkansas. It is a two-story structure, built of rusticated gray limestone, with modest Art Deco styling.”
Wikipedia article Izard County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 18 National Register listings published here for Izard County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 93001025 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
170 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Izard County Courthouse
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,590 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 47 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
65
Arson/incendiarism
47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
46
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Natural
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Izard County Courthouse: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Melbourne, the town this property stands in, in 52 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 31 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off the drive-thru at a bank and several metal buildings were damaged. A high school gymnasium roof also sustained damage.
Part of the roof of a house was torn off, allowing water to run inside and ruin many of the furnishings in the house. The roof was also taken off of a pole barn.
Lightning struck a tree in Melbourne, causing it to catch fire. After the fire was extinguished, it was discovered that there was also a leak in a 1.5 inch natural gas line. The gas company responded to repair the leak.
Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines, blew the porch off the front of a house and knocked down some road signs. Several homes also had shingles torn off their roofs.
Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off the drive-thru at a bank and several metal buildings were damaged. A high school gymnasium roof also sustained damage.
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.
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.
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