Charlton Bathhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

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

Sources: 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. N of US 270, W of Crystal Springs, Ouachita NF, Crystal Springs, 71968
When was it listed? October 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
Township. Hale township
Architectural style. WPA Rustic
National Register reference number. 93001080 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Charlton Bathhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 906 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 37 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	37
Debris and open burning	21
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	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
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	177 W-18
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	HICKORY NUT #1
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	HICKORY NUT #2
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	HICKORY NUT #3
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	HICKORY NUT #4
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	HICKORY NUT #5
28 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Ouachita National Forest	MEYERS

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Charlton Bathhouse: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Slate, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz. 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	Recorded
Starfire Mine	Quartz	Producer	1990
No Name	Slate, Dimension	Past Producer
No Name	Silica	Past Producer
No Name	Slate, Dimension	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Silica	Unknown

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Crystal Springs	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 1995	Hail	Crystal Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Crystal 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Camp Clearfork Historic District	1.8 miles	1993
Charlton Spillway-Dam	2.0 miles	1993
Mayberry Springs	4.4 miles	1990
Harley E. Green House	6.4 miles	1979
Gillham House	7.7 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001080 in Record Group 79.
Garland County	All 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.