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Photograph of Titan II ICBM Launch Complex 374-5 Site
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Titan II ICBM Launch Complex 374-5 Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Titan II ICBM Launch Complex 374-5 Site is a historic military installation in rural Faulkner County, Arkansas. It is located roughly midway between Greenbrier and Conway, on the east side of United States Route 65 about 0.4 miles (0.64 km) north of its junction with East Cadron Ridge Road.”

Wikipedia article Titan II ICBM Launch Complex 374-5 Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Faulkner County · listed in 2000 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. E of US 65;0.4 mi. N of jct. with E. Cadron Ridge Rd., Springhill, 72058
  • When was it listed? February 2000
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Cold War Resources Associated with the 308th Strategic Missile Wing in Arkansas MPS
  • Township. East Fork township
  • National Register reference number. 98001433 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

89 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Titan II ICBM Launch Complex 374-5 Site between 1998 and 2018, burning about 688 acres in total. None 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Faulkner County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Titan II ICBM Launch Complex 374-5 Site: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, 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
Mc Ray QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this property

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springhill, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 hail, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailSpringhill-Hail was estimated to be half dollar sized just south of Springhill.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSpringhill-A tree fell across a dirt road near the town of Springhill.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindSpringhill-Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2015HailSpringhill-no account filed
April 2011HailSpringhill-no account filed
April 2007HailSpringhill-no account filed
May 2001HailSpringhill-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSpringhill-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindSpringhill-no account filed
March 1998HailSpringhill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulkner 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
Sellers House2.1 miles2005
James and Jewell Salter House3.4 miles2005
Patton House4.1 miles1993
Century Flyer4.6 miles2010
Hendrix College Addition Neighborhood Historic District4.8 miles2007
Galloway Hall5.0 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001433 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Faulkner CountyAll 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.