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Photograph of Sulphur Springs Park Reserve
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sulphur Springs Park Reserve

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Sulphur Springs Park Reserve is a historic former spa area at the heart of Sulphur Springs, Benton County, Arkansas. The area is 16.5 acres (6.7 ha) bounded on the east by Lake La Balladine, impounded by a dam on Butler Creek.”

Wikipedia article Sulphur Springs Park Reserve, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. AR 59, Sulphur Springs, 72768
  • When was it listed? July 1999
  • Category. district
  • Township. Township 4
  • National Register reference number. 99000791 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

36 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs Park Reserve between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,202 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 August 2012Natural50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2012Natural44 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs Park Reserve: 9 past producers, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
Armstrong & Cravens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
John P Hughes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joplin-Elk River Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lewis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Madge Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mill Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sulphur Springs, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 1993Tornado (F0)Sulphur Springs$5,000A weak F0 tornado touched down in Sulphur Springs. The tornado touched down in an isolated area and travelled a very short distance before lifting. The only damage was a few trees blown down.
March 1996HailSulphur Springs-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1994HailSulphur Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Camp Crowder Gymnasium0.2 miles2011
Jones House0.3 miles1988
Wee Pine Knot0.5 miles1999
Sulphur Springs Old School Complex Historic District0.5 miles2001
Shiloh House0.5 miles1988
Adar House1.2 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000791 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton CountyAll 162 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.