Spirit of the American Doughboy Monument-Fort Smith

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Sebastian County · listed in 1997 · category: Object.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Spirit of the American Doughboy Monument--Fort Smith - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4901 Midland Ave., Fort Smith, 72904
When was it listed? May 1997
Category. object
Township. Upper township
National Register reference number. 97000454 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Spirit of the American Doughboy Monument-Fort Smith between 1996 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Spirit of the American Doughboy Monument-Fort Smith: 10 past producers, 7 producers, 1 plant. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, 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
(Facility) Zinc Smelter	Zinc	Plant
Unk	Stone	Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Fort Smith Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Arkhola Dredge & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ashland Sand& Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fort Smith Dredge & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
General Inn Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this property

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Smith, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Smith	$50,000	Numerous trees were blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Smith	$5,000	Several trees were knocked down near the Fort Smith Airport.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Smith	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a light pole onto I-540.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Smith	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Smith	$4,000	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Fort Smith	-	An isolated severe thunderstorm produced dime size hail in Fort Smith.
May 1995	Hail	Fort Smith	-	Severe thunderstorms moved through northwest Arkansas during the late evening of May 7th. Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Cherokee City and in Sulphur Springs, and trees were also blown down in Hiawasse. Strong thunderstorm winds blew down telephone lines in Eureka Springs, and large tree branches were blown down by 60 mile an hour winds in Huntsville. Nickel-size hail fell at Fort Smith and at Greenwood, and dime-size hail fell two miles west of Lincoln.
May 1995	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
March 1993	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Smith	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Fort Smith	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
William Ayers House	2.8 miles	1999
Echols Memorial Christian Church	3.2 miles	2006
William J. Murphy House	3.2 miles	1979
Angus McLeod House	3.3 miles	1978
May-Lecta-Sweet Historic District	3.4 miles	2008
United Hebrew Congregation Tilles Memorial Temple	3.5 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000454 in Record Group 79.
Sebastian County	All 64 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.