King Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The King Schoolhouse is a historic school building in the small town of King, Arkansas. Located near the center of King, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of United States Route 71, it is a two-story brick building with a hip roof and a hip-roof dormer.”
Wikipedia article King Schoolhouse, 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. Approximately 1 mi. E of AR 71 near center of King, King, 71841
When was it listed? June 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Railroad Era Resources of Southwest Arkansas MPS
Township. Mineral township
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 96000645 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

130 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of King Schoolhouse between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,006 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 62 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	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Natural	14
Debris and open burning	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	2

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 2003	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
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
5 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of King Schoolhouse: 20 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Lead. 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
Davis Mine	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Otto	Antimony, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Producer	1877
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
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	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sevier County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names King, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2026	Tornado (EF1)	King	$25,000	Early on the morning of March 11th, a line of severe thunderstorms moved into Sevier County, Arkansas. The line of thunderstorms produced a brief EF1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 95 mph just east of U.S. Highway 71 southeast of Gillham. As the tornado touched down east of the highway, it damaged several large barns before it then snapped several hardwood trees in a downstream field. The tornado then crossed Kind Road where multiple trees were snapped and uprooted. As the tornado moved east of Kind Road, it damaged several more trees before quickly lifting.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	King	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
May 1994	Hail	King	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.

Every storm 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
Goff and Gamble Merchandise Store	1.7 miles	1996
Gillham City Jail	1.8 miles	2012
First Presbyterian Church	7.8 miles	1994
Bishop Brookes House	7.9 miles	1999
DeQueen Commercial Historic District	7.9 miles	2012
Otis Theodore and Effiegene Locke Wingo House	7.9 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000645 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.