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Mirror Lake Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Mirror Lake Historic District encompasses Mirror Lake, a man-made lake in the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest near Fifty-Six, Arkansas.”

Wikipedia article Mirror Lake Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Forest Service Rd. 1110E, Ozark--St. Francis NF, Fiftysix, 72560
  • When was it listed? September 1995
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
  • District. District 1
  • National Register reference number. 94001614 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Mirror Lake Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 559 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning24
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGREEN
6 September 1995Natural12 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCHUCK
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsLONG
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsROSA
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsPHILL
20 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Smokingunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBEAR

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mirror Lake Historic District: 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Tantalum, Zinc. 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
UnkCopper, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Tantalum, ZincOccurrence
Allison Mine & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allison PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stone 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
North Sylamore Creek Bridge3.3 miles2010
Miles Jeffery Barn3.4 miles1985
Sylamore Creek Bridge3.4 miles1999
Clark-King House5.9 miles1985
Roasting Ear Church and School6.5 miles1985
Clarence Anderson Barn6.6 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001614 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stone CountyAll 58 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.