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Photograph of Camp Clearfork
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Camp Clearfork Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Camp Clearfork is a group use recreational facility in Ouachita National Forest, west of the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is located at the end of Camp Clearfork Trail, south of United States Route 270.”

Wikipedia article Camp Clearfork, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 95 National Register listings published here for Garland County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Camp Clearfork Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 879 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 29 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/incendiarism29
Debris and open burning19
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National Forest177 W-18
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National ForestHICKORY NUT #1
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOuachita National ForestHICKORY NUT #2
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresOuachita National ForestHICKORY NUT #3
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National ForestHICKORY NUT #4
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National ForestHICKORY NUT #5
28 September 2003Arson/incendiarism22 acresOuachita National ForestMEYERS
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOuachita National Forest120

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Camp Clearfork Historic District: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Slate, Dimension, Quartz, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kimes Crystal AreaQuartzUnknown
No NameSlate, DimensionPast Producer
No NameSilicaPast Producer
No NameSlate, DimensionPast Producer
Starfire MineQuartzProducer1990
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSilicaUnknown

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal Springs, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCrystal Springs$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 1995HailCrystal Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCrystal Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Charlton Spillway-Dam1.0 miles1993
Charlton Bathhouse1.8 miles1993
Mayberry Springs5.3 miles1990
Harley E. Green House7.1 miles1979
Buckville Cemetery7.9 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001079 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garland CountyAll 95 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.