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Photograph of Woman's Community Club Band Shell
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Woman's Community Club Band Shell

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Woman's Community Club Band Shell is a historic open-air band shell in Spring Park, a public park in downtown Heber Springs, Arkansas. It is a roughly rectangular structure, built out of local fieldstone, with the main half-dome shell formed out of concrete.”

Wikipedia article Woman's Community Club Band Shell, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Cleburne County · listed in 1994 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NE corner of Spring Park, Heber Springs, 72543
  • When was it listed? August 1994
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Township 2
  • National Register reference number. 94000849 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Woman's Community Club Band Shell between 1997 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2012Natural4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Cleburne 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 Woman's Community Club Band Shell: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Heber Springs Quarry & MillSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heber Springs, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1995Thunderstorm WindHeber Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and damaged some roof of buildings.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindHeber Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew camping trailers over and uprooted trees in the Heber Springs area. Some of the trees fell onto camping trailers.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHeber Springs-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees onto houses.
August 1995HailHeber Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindHeber Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindHeber Springs-Several trees were blown down.
September 1993HailHeber Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Dr. Cyrus F. Crosby House0.1 miles1993
Clarence Frauenthal House0.1 miles1993
Hugh L. King House0.2 miles1992
Heber Springs Commercial Historic District0.3 miles2009
Cleburne County Courthouse0.4 miles1976
Olmstead, T. E., & Son Funeral Home0.4 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000849 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cleburne CountyAll 18 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.