Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The Collier Springs Picnic Area is located on Forest Road 177 in Ouachita National Forest, northeast of Norman, Arkansas. The picnic area is notable for the presence of the Collier Springs Shelter, which was built by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1939.”
Wikipedia article Collier Springs Picnic Area, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
Township. Norman township
National Register reference number. 93001083 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
70 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Collier Springs Shelter
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,185 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 17 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
19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
17
Arson/incendiarism
17
Natural
7
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
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
12 workings within 5 miles of Collier Springs Shelter: 8 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer.
8 still produce. What was taken out: Quartz, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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
Norman, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 18 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
The Montgomery County Sheriff Office reported multiple tents and one vehicle were washed into the Caddo River near the town of Norman. All campers evacuated beforehand and there were no reports of injuries.
Heavy rains caused flash flooding in and around the Norman area. Numerous roads were covered by high water. A low water bridge was also washed out. A number of homes and businesses were also flooded.
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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