Photograph of Lake Catherine State Park CCC Cabins — Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cabin No. 1

Built in 1941. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Lake Catherine State Park is a 2,180-acre (880 ha) public recreation area located on the south shore of Lake Catherine, eight miles (13 km) southeast of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The park was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps.”
Wikipedia article Lake Catherine State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Hot Spring County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · built in 1941.

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. Cabin area access rd., Lake Catherine State Park, Shorewood Hills, 71913
When was it listed? April 1995
Category. building
Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
Township. Fenter township
When was it built? 1941
National Register reference number. 95000455 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

129 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Cabin No. 1 between 1997 and 2020, burning about 609 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 21 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	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Arson/incendiarism	21
Smoking	13
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Cabin No. 1: 10 producers, 8 past producers, 6 prospects, 2 unknowns. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Vanadium, Barium-Barite, Titanium, 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	Recorded
(Facility) Jones Mills Smelter	Aluminum	Plant
Arkansas Power and Light Company Property	Fluorine-Fluorite, Pyrite	Past Producer
Christy Brookite Deposit	Titanium, Metal	Occurrence	Brookite
Christy Deposit.	Vanadium, Titanium, Niobium (Columbium)	Prospect	1890, 1976
Christy Property	Molybdenum, Titanium, Metal, Niobium (Columbium), Vanadium	Producer	Molybdenite, Rutile
Christy Property	Vanadium, Titanium, Metal	Prospect	1943, 1984, 1985
Golden-Estes Property	Molybdenum	Past Producer
Kimsey Prospect	Niobium (Columbium), Molybdenum	Producer	Brookite, Molybdenite
Magnet Cove Mica Deposit	Mica	Unknown
Magnet Cove Rutile Mine	Titanium, Metal, Niobium (Columbium)	Producer	Rutile

Every working recorded in Hot Spring 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
Lake Catherine State Park-Cabin No. 2	under 500 feet	1992
Lake Catherine State Park-Cabin No. 3	under 500 feet	1992
Lake Catherine State Park-Nature Cabin	0.3 miles	1992
Couchwood Historic District	0.7 miles	2001
Remmel Dam	1.3 miles	1992
Lake Catherine State Park-Bridge No. 2	1.6 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000455 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hot Spring County	All 27 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.