DeQueen & Eastern Railroad Machine Shop

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The DeQueen & Eastern Railroad Machine Shop is an historic railroad maintenance shop in De Queen, Arkansas. The former machine shop is located on the northwest corner of the railyard of the De Queen and Eastern Railroad, near the corner of South Hughes Street and East Lockesburg Avenue.”
Wikipedia article DeQueen & Eastern Railroad Machine Shop, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Sevier County · listed in 1996 · 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. Northwestern edge of DeQueen and Eastern RR yard, adjacent to AR 329, DeQueen, 71832
When was it listed? June 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Railroad Era Resources of Southwest Arkansas MPS
Township. De Queen East township
National Register reference number. 96000643 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

77 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of DeQueen & Eastern Railroad Machine Shop between 1997 and 2020, burning about 217 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 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
Arson/incendiarism	30
Debris and open burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of DeQueen & Eastern Railroad Machine Shop: 23 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Calcium, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Davis Mine	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
No Name	Calcium	Past Producer
Petty Prospect	Diatomite	Prospect
Rolling Fork Pit & Plant	Flagstone	Producer
Dequeen Sand & Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Sevier 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
Hayes Hardware Store	0.5 miles	1980
DeQueen Commercial Historic District	0.5 miles	2012
First Presbyterian Church	0.6 miles	1994
Bishop Brookes House	0.7 miles	1999
Otis Theodore and Effiegene Locke Wingo House	0.7 miles	2004
King Schoolhouse	8.0 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000643 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sevier County	All 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.
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.