Prairie County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Prairie County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Jct. of Magnolia and Prairie Sts., DeValls Bluff, 72041
When was it listed? April 1995
Category. building
Township. Watensaw township
National Register reference number. 95000457 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Prairie County Courthouse between 2000 and 2019, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
16 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 June 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 February 2007	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 October 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Prairie 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
De Valls Bluff Waterworks	under 500 feet	2007
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church	0.2 miles	2009
Castleberry Hotel	0.4 miles	2007
Rock Island Depot	6.6 miles	1987
Kocourek and Son Hardware	6.7 miles	2015
Wingmead	7.7 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000457 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Prairie County	All 15 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.