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Woodmen of Union Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Woodmen of Union Building is a historic commercial building at 501 Malvern Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a four-story structure, built mainly out of brick and ceramic blocks, although its southeastern section has upper levels with wood framing and finishing.”

Wikipedia article Woodmen of Union Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 95 National Register listings published here for Garland County · listed in 1997 · 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. 501 Malvern Ave., Hot Springs, 71901
  • When was it listed? June 1997
  • Category. building
  • Township. Hot Springs township
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97000616 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

168 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Woodmen of Union Building between 1993 and 2020, burning about 577 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 41 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/incendiarism41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning33
Natural23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking7
Fireworks6
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
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHot Springs National ParkVEHICLE WF
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Woodmen of Union Building: 13 past producers, 8 producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Clay, Stone. 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
No NameFlagstonePast Producer
Potash Sulfur SpringsNiobium (Columbium)Occurrence
Potash Sulfur SpringsVanadiumProducer1960, 1966, 1983
Hot Springs MillSilicaProducer
Mc Earl MineSilicaProducer
Natural Hones MillSilicaProducer
No NameClayPast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this property

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hot Springs, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHot Springs$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHot Springs$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHot Springs$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
April 1994HailHot Springs$5,000Golf ball-size hail broke several car windshields.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHot Springs$500The tops of some trees were broken off.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHot Springs$500Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree that blocked a road in Hot Springs.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Winds gusted to 69 mph at the Hot Springs Airport. Some tree limbs were also blown down.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Several trees were blown down, resulting in power outages.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees in the western part of Hot Springs.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Some trees were blown down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building.
May 1995HailHot Springs-Lightning struck an apartment building in Hot Springs which resulted in a fire.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and tore the roof off a storage building.
July 1994HailHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some tree limbs.
June 1994HailHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
June 1994HailHot Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
April 1995HailHot Springs-no account filed
June 1994HailHot Springs-no account filed
June 1994HailHot Springs-no account filed
June 1994HailHot Springs-no account filed
May 1994HailHot Springs-no account filed
August 1993HailHot Springs-no account filed
August 1993HailHot Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Old Post Officeunder 500 feet1990
Pleasant Street Historic Districtunder 500 feet2003
Plunkett-Jarrell Grocer Co. Buildingunder 500 feet2022
Visitors Chapel AME0.1 miles1995
Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-Hot Springs0.2 miles1992
Hot Springs Railroad Warehouse Historic District0.2 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000616 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garland CountyAll 95 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.