Arkansas City Commercial District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Arkansas City Commercial District encompasses the three oldest surviving commercial buildings in Arkansas City, Arkansas. They are located along Sprague (4th) Avenue, between Kate Adams (1st) Street and De Soto Avenue, and are a reminder of a once-thriving commercial district in the city.”
Wikipedia article Arkansas City Commercial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Desha County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly along the jct. of Desoto Ave. and Sprague St., Arkansas, 71630
When was it listed? February 1999
Category. district
Township. Franklin township
National Register reference number. 99000227 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arkansas City Commercial District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Greenville Gravel Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	1909

Every working recorded in Desha 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
Xenophon Overton Pindall Law Office	under 500 feet	1999
Thane House	0.2 miles	1982
Hubert & Ionia Furr House	0.3 miles	2011
Desha County Courthouse	0.3 miles	1976
Dickinson-Moore House	0.3 miles	2011
Arkansas City High School	0.3 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000227 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Desha County	All 26 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.
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.