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Photograph of Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District
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Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District is a historic courthouse in Booneville, Arkansas, one of two county seats of Logan County. It is a three-story masonry building, built out of buff brick with limestone trim.”

Wikipedia article Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 4th and N. Broadway Sts., SE corner, Booneville, 72927
  • When was it listed? March 1997
  • Category. building
  • Township. Sugar Creek township
  • National Register reference number. 97000207 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

110 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,322 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 28 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/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning24
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOuachita National ForestFLAT ROCK
5 September 2005Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresOuachita National ForestGOLDEN CITY
2 September 2000Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2001Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2012Debris and open burning17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

60 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Booneville, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 42 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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
February 1997Tornado (F1)Booneville1 killed, 3 hurt, $250,000no account filed
March 2009LightningBooneville1 hurtA man was struck by lightning while on a drilling rig off of Ferguson Valley Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBooneville$300,000The roof of a building was damaged and a window was blown out of a store. Trees, power lines, and power poles were knocked down. Trees fell on several residences and a barn.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBooneville$150,000A metal roof was blown off a building housing the Arkansas Revenue Office and a medical clinic. Part of the brick facade of the building fell into the street. The bricks damaged some other businesses and vehicles.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBooneville$50,000A metal building was damaged.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBooneville$50,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindBooneville$20,000Trees were blown down across Arkansas Highway 10 in and around Booneville.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBooneville$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down south of Booneville.
January 2007Flash FloodBooneville$11,000A number of secondary roads throughout the county were flooded.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindBooneville$10,000Trees were blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBooneville$5,000Trees were blown down.
October 2012Thunderstorm WindBooneville$5,000Power lines were blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBooneville$5,000Trees were blown down.
August 2009LightningBooneville$5,000Lightning struck a home on Second Street, melting two attic wind turbines and starting a small fire.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindBooneville$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down some tree limbs and a television cable.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBooneville$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 2024Heavy RainBooneville-A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.10 inches was measured at Booneville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Multiple trees and powerlines were blown down in Booneville.
March 2023Flash FloodBooneville-The Petit Jean River at Booneville rose approximately 16 feet and came out of its banks near Booneville.
April 2021Funnel CloudBooneville-A funnel cloud was spotted from the Mercy Hospital parking lot in Booneville, looking towards Chismville.
May 2020Flash FloodBooneville-Several roads were flooded in Booneville.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBooneville-A few trees were blown down near Hwy. 23, south of Booneville.
September 2020Flash FloodBooneville-Many county roads were underwater near the Petit Jean River.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Trees and power lines were down.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Trees were blown down across the highway in and near Booneville.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Power lines were blown down in Booneville across Highway 109 and Grove Street. The fire department was responding due to a fire in the trees.
November 2011Funnel CloudBooneville-A law enforcement officer reported a rotating funnel cloud in the Glendale and Booneville areas.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindBooneville-A tree was down on the north side of Booneville.
August 2009Flash FloodBooneville-Street flooding occurred on Arkansas Highway 10.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Trees were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Trees were down.
June 2003Flash FloodBooneville-Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur in Booneville. Several streets were under water for a short period of time.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Booneville-A weak tornado touched down briefly over western Logan County. The only damage found was some large limbs torn off trees, mainly on ridge lines.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Several buildings sustained roof damage from a severe thunderstorm that moved through Booneville.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Several trees were blown down.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Trees down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
May 1995HailBooneville-Golf ball-size hail damaged two Highway Department vehicles.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
February 2009HailBooneville-no account filed
February 2009HailBooneville-no account filed
March 2008HailBooneville-no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
January 2002HailBooneville-no account filed
January 2002Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
December 1999Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed
May 1999HailBooneville-no account filed
May 1998HailBooneville-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindBooneville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000207 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan CountyAll 44 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.
  • 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.