Old Union School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Old Union School is a historic school building at 504 Old Union Road in Birdell, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood frame Plain Traditional structure, with a corrugated metal gable roof and a stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Old Union School (Birdell, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Randolph County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 504 Old Union Rd., Birdell, 72434
When was it listed? November 1993
Category. building
Township. West Roanoke township
National Register reference number. 93001203 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

83 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Old Union School between 1997 and 2019, burning about 869 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	5
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1998	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Old Union School: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Adams Property	Iron	Prospect
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Randolph 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
St.Mary's AME Church-Pocahontas Colored School	6.7 miles	2002
Marr's Creek Bridge	7.2 miles	2008
Pocahontas Federal Savings and Loan	7.3 miles	2019
Pocahontas Post Office	7.3 miles	2002
Randolph County Courthouse	7.3 miles	1996
Black River Bridge	7.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001203 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Randolph County	All 19 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.