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Chicago Mill Company Office Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Chicago Mill Company Office Building is a historic commercial building at 129 North Washington Street in West Helena, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, whose Craftsman styling includes broad eaves and a wraparound porch supported by square columns.”

Wikipedia article Chicago Mill Company Office Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Phillips 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. 129 N. Washington St., West Helena, 72390
  • When was it listed? October 1996
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. West Helena MPS
  • Township. Hornor township
  • National Register reference number. 96001133 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Chicago Mill Company Office Building between 1992 and 2015, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBLAIR
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCANE
7 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTURKEY
15 March 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 February 2015Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 February 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCASTEWAY

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chicago Mill Company Office Building: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Phillips Cnty Hiwy DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Helena, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2002Thunderstorm WindWest Helena$250,000Four businesses were damaged. Four homes were also damaged. Some trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 2004Flash FloodWest Helena$100,000Numerous businesses, homes and roads were flooded.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindWest Helena$35,000Thirty mobile homes were damaged. An outbuilding was also damaged and a fence was wrapped around a tree. A house under construction had the outer frame blown off. A parked 18-wheeler was blown over.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindWest Helena$20,000Straight line winds knocked down trees and caused some minor roof damage in the West Helena and Helena area. A storage shed roof was blown off and another shed was picked up over a four foot fence and thrown into the side of a house.
February 1996Thunderstorm WindWest Helena$20,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWest Helena$5,000A few trees were uprooted.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindWest Helena$5,000Several trees were knocked down.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWest Helena$5,000Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindWest Helena$1,000A police car windshield was destroyed by several tree limbs.
June 1995HailWest Helena$100Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 2001HailWest Helena$10no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Denison House0.9 miles1996
Eliza Miller Junior and Senior High School0.9 miles2024
Faust House1.3 miles1996
Myers House1.3 miles1996
Nelson House1.3 miles1996
Gemmill-Faust House1.3 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96001133 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Phillips CountyAll 60 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.