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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Shady Lake Dam
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Co. Rd. 64, Caney Cr. Wildlife Management Area, Ouachita NF, Athens
- When was it listed? October 1993
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
- Township. Gap Springs township
- National Register reference number. 93001099 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
44 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Shady Lake Dam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,489 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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 | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 19 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Ouachita National Forest | not named |
| 19 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
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 Shady Lake Dam: 7 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kaolin, Slate, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avant & Heath | Slate, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| He Mountain Coon Creek | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Pike County Clays | Kaolin | Unknown | ||
| National Slate Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Tom Heath Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| E S White Prospect | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Harold Bullard Prospects | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Harris Creek Group | Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Parson | Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Shady Lake Mill | Manganese | Past Producer |
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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shady Lake Bathhouse | 0.1 miles | 1993 | |
| Shady Lake Picnic Pavilion | 0.2 miles | 1993 | |
 | Shady Lake Caretaker's House | 0.3 miles | 1993 |
| Shady Lake Recreation Area Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2015 | |
| Shady Lake CCC Bridge #2 | 0.5 miles | 2010 | |
| Shady Lake CCC Bridge #1 | 0.6 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93001099 in Record Group 79. |
| Polk County | All 33 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.