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One of 95 National Register listings published here for Garland County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Iron Springs Shelter No. 1
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. AR 7 N of Jessieville, Ouachita NF, Jessieville, 71949
- When was it listed? October 1993
- Category. building
- Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
- Township. Hale township
- National Register reference number. 93001091 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
99 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Iron Springs Shelter No. 1 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 362 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 36 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 | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Ouachita National Forest | DRY BRANCH |
| 6 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | BUFFALO GAP |
| 29 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | GAR22988967 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Iron Springs Shelter No. 1: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Calcium, Quartz, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Name | Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| No Name | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Quartz Processing Corp. Quarry | Quartz | Producer | ||
| Terry Quarries | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Colemans Mill | Silica | Producer | ||
| Dierks Quartz Area No 5 | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| J W Ellison Tract | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Miller Mountain Quarry | Silica | Producer | ||
| No Name | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| O J Blackman | Silica | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
24 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jessieville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Flood | Jessieville | $3,000,000 | Some of the campsites around Lake Catherine were closed due to flooding. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Jessieville | $1,000,000 | Widespread areal flooding occurred. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessieville | $25,000 | Power poles and power lines were blown down. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessieville | $2,000 | Large limbs were blown down around Jessieville. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessieville | $1,000 | Large limbs were blown down. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Jessieville | - | A weak tornado touched down in the northern part of Garland County, about 4 miles northwest of Jessieville. Winds were estimated to be 90 mph. The tornado tracked through the Ouachita National Forest, snapping off and blowing down hundreds of trees. The tornado moved northeast into Saline County. |
| October 2004 | Flash Flood | Jessieville | - | Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur in the Jessieville area. Several roads were flooded, causing school buses to detour around the flooded roads. |
| October 1995 | Hail | Jessieville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Lightning | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Jessieville | - | no account filed |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Iron Springs Shelter No. 2 | under 500 feet | 1993 |
 | Iron Springs Dam | under 500 feet | 1993 |
| CCC Company 3767 Powder Magazine Historic District | 7.3 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93001091 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.