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Photograph of Glenwood Iron Mountain Railroad Depot
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Glenwood Iron Mountain Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Glenwood Iron Mountain Railroad Depot is a historic train station building in Glenwood, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, located just west of the point were U.S.”

Wikipedia article Glenwood station (Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Pike 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. W of jct. of Union Pacific RR and US 70, Glenwood, 71943
  • When was it listed? June 1996
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Historic Railroad Depots of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Clark township
  • National Register reference number. 96000692 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

88 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood Iron Mountain Railroad Depot between 1999 and 2019, burning about 379 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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 burning24
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Glenwood Iron Mountain Railroad Depot: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bird & Son, Inc #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Featherstone PropertyManganeseUnknown
Kettelberger PropertyManganeseUnknown
Shields Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this property

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 4 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Flash FloodGlenwood$200,000The Pike County Sheriff Office reported multiple vehicles near the Caddo River were washed away due to flash flooding. There were also flooded roads in and near Glenwood.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindGlenwood$25,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2011LightningGlenwood$25,000Lightning stuck a natural gas metering station, causing the natural gas to catch fire.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGlenwood$10,000Trees were blown down and some were on houses.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindGlenwood$5,000Several trees were blown down.
April 2026HailGlenwood-Quarter-sized hail fell in the town of Glenwood.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Numerous trees were uprooted in the town of Glenwood.
April 2026HailGlenwood-Golf ball to baseball sized hail fell in Glenwood.
April 2025Flash FloodGlenwood-Lucky's Caddo River Canoe and Campground was completely flooded by high water.
February 2018FloodGlenwood-Water was over the road near Glenwood, over a low water crossing bridge.
May 2015Flash FloodGlenwood-A few streets in Glenwood were under water.
July 2012HailGlenwood-Hail fell on the northwest side of Glenwood.
July 2009Heavy RainGlenwood-Glenwood broke the record for the greatest rainfall ever recorded in the month of July.
April 2004Tornado (F1)Glenwood-A weak tornado was spawned in northeast Pike County about 5 miles south-southeast of Glenwood. The tornado initially was very weak, with tree limbs downed and tree tops removed. The tornado strengthened as it headed into western Clark County.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree onto Highway 70 near Glenwood.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Several trees were knocked down.
May 2013HailGlenwood-no account filed
February 2012HailGlenwood-no account filed
April 2011Funnel CloudGlenwood-no account filed
May 2010HailGlenwood-no account filed
March 2010HailGlenwood-no account filed
April 2008HailGlenwood-no account filed
May 2003HailGlenwood-no account filed
May 2001HailGlenwood-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-no account filed
January 1999Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-no account filed
May 1997HailGlenwood-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-no account filed
November 1996Flash FloodGlenwood-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-no account filed
April 1994HailGlenwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000692 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pike CountyAll 9 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.