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Photograph of Hulsey Bend School
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Hulsey Bend School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Hulsey Bend School is a historic one-room schoolhouse building in rural southeastern Independence County, Arkansas. It is located east of Oil Trough on Freeze Bend Road, about 0.7 miles (1.1 km) north of Arkansas Highway 14.”

Wikipedia article Hulsey Bend School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Independence County · listed in 1999 · 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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Freeze Bend Rd., 0.7 mi. E of jct of AR 122 and AR 14, Oil Trough, 72112
  • When was it listed? February 1999
  • Category. building
  • Township. Oil Trough township
  • National Register reference number. 99000153 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Hulsey Bend School between 2005 and 2018, burning about 524 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2

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
16 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 April 2006Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 April 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 March 2005Arson/incendiarism80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 March 2005Arson/incendiarism80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Storms near this property

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oil Trough, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 28 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 5 tornado, 4 flash flood. The reports record 3 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
January 1999Tornado (F2)Oil Trough3 hurtno account filed
March 1997Tornado (F2)Oil Trough$3,000,000no account filed
September 1993Tornado (F2)Oil Trough-$500,000An F2 tornado touched down 2 miles south of Oil Trough and traveled approximately 5 miles to the northeast before lifting. The path that the tornado traveled was mostly in farm fields. However, the tornado did strike several houses and an airplane hangar. One home sustained major damage, while two other homes received some minor structural damage. A number of trees were also snapped off or uprooted along the path. A local pilot managed to capture a portion of the storm on videotape. The homes that were damaged were unoccupied at the time the tornado struck.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindOil Trough$100,000Damage was reported to businesses in the Oil Trough and Pleasant Plains areas. Power lines were also reported down in this area.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindOil Trough$30,000A privately-owned anemometer measured wind gusts of 95 mph. A large outbuilding, 60 ft by 70 ft, was blown off its foundation and across the road.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindOil Trough$25,000Trees were blown down from Oil Trough eastward along Arkansas 14. In Oil Trough, a huge pecan tree fell through a mobile home. A weather station near Oil Trough recorded a wind gust of 59 mph.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindOil Trough$25,000A tree was down on a house.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindOil Trough$5,000Power lines were blown down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindOil Trough$500Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-Several trees and powerlines were blown down across the town of Oil Trough, AR.
July 2013Funnel CloudOil Trough-There were several reports of a funnel cloud near Oil Trough.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-A spotter measured a 75 mph wind gust at 402 PM. At 414 PM, wind was sustained at 60 mph and gusting to 72 mph.
April 2007Funnel CloudOil Trough-A small funnel cloud was observed to the southeast of Oil Trough. The funnel cloud was far above the ground and was not extending very far down from the base of the cumulus cloud from which it developed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-Many trees and large tree limbs downed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-Trees down.
July 2006Flash FloodOil Trough-High water covered Buzzard Roost Road and was impassible for a short period of time.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-A wind gust of 62 mph was reported near Oil Trough. Trees were downed with a building damaged.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-Many corn stalks were blown down.
July 2002Flash FloodOil Trough-Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur over portions of Independence County. Several roads were covered by high water around the Oil Trough area and Highway 14 was flooded for a period of time.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-Thunderstorm winds destroyed several outbuildings and damaged the roofs of a few buildings.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-Lightning struck the roof of a house which resulted in a fire. The fire was quickly extinguished and damage was confined to the roof and attic area of the house.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
June 2012HailOil Trough-no account filed
January 2012HailOil Trough-no account filed
April 2011HailOil Trough-no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
April 2006HailOil Trough-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
July 2004Flash FloodOil Trough-no account filed
April 2003HailOil Trough-no account filed
April 2003HailOil Trough-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
April 2002HailOil Trough-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOil Trough-no account filed
July 2000HailOil Trough-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F3)Oil Trough-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F2)Oil Trough-no account filed
January 1999HailOil Trough-no account filed
January 1999HailOil Trough-no account filed
January 1999HailOil Trough-no account filed
January 1999HailOil Trough-no account filed
July 1999Flash FloodOil Trough-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Hankins' Store2.5 miles2014
Akron Cemetery2.7 miles2002
Big Botton Slough Bridge4.2 miles2004
Dearing House4.8 miles1976
Thida Grove School5.2 miles1992
Cedar Creek Bridge6.9 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000153 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Independence CountyAll 43 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.