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Photograph of Marion Colored High School
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marion Colored High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Marion Colored High School, also known as the Phelix School, is a former segregated public school, and a historic school building located at the northwest corner of Arkansas Highway 77 and Gannt Street in Sunset, Arkansas, United States.”

Wikipedia article Marion Colored High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Crittenden County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. W of AR 77, Sunset, 72364
  • When was it listed? March 1995
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Ethnic and Racial Minority Settlement of the Arkansas Delta MPS
  • Township. Jasper township
  • National Register reference number. 95000349 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Marion Colored High School: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
CarterSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morrison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rosebud IslandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Turbyfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weeks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crittenden 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
Crittenden County Courthouse0.5 miles1977
Crittenden County Bank and Trust Company0.6 miles1984
Johnson-Portis House4.9 miles2017
Lawrie House4.9 miles1996
Hamilton Apartments5.0 miles1998
Wilson Power and Light Company Ice Plant5.1 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000349 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crittenden CountyAll 17 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.
  • 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.