Iron Springs Shelter No. 2

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. 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. 93001092 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Iron Springs Shelter No. 2 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

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Iron Springs Shelter No. 2: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
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

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this property

24 since 1995

Regional 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

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

3 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
Iron Springs Shelter No. 1	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 93001092 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.