Powder Magazine

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rd. 96 N of Blue Ball, Ouachita NF, Blue Ball, 72833
When was it listed? October 1993
Category. structure
Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
District. District 6
National Register reference number. 93001096 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Powder Magazine between 1993 and 2019, burning about 569 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	10
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	258 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	148
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2001	Natural	12 acres	Ouachita National Forest	POTATO KNOB
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Ouachita National Forest	HOGAN MTN
30 August 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	not named
24 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	WALTREAK

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Powder Magazine: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
	Matt Wunee Property	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this property

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Ball, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
April 2010	Flash Flood	Blue Ball	1 killed, $20,000	A 63 year-old man drowned during a flash flood near Union Hill. He tried to drive his pickup truck across a small low-water bridge, but the truck was swept into the creek. Witnesses said the man tried to escape through the driver's window, but he was caught by the current and dragged downstream.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Blue Ball	$5,000	Large trees were blown down.
July 1994	Hail	Blue Ball	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Blue Ball	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Blue Ball	-	Trees were blown down in Blue Ball. The time was estimated from radar.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Blue Ball	-	A large tree was blown down onto a house.
May 2008	Hail	Blue Ball	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Blue Ball	-	no account filed
November 2003	Hail	Blue Ball	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Blue Ball	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Blue Ball	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001096 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Scott County	All 14 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.