Hot Springs Arkansas
Hot Springs NP: A Chronology of Hot Springs Events
A disastrous Hot Springs fire occurred on the fifth of March 11 p.40 , destroying many buildings (including the Hot Springs Hotel, American Hotel, the Baptist Church located near the current site of the Ozark Bathhouse, the Weir and George Bathhouse, the Huffman and Hamilton Bathhouse connected with the Hot Springs Hotel, the city jail, and the French Restaurant) but leaving the Arlington, Sumpter, Grand Central, Avenue, Rockafellow, and Hale untouched. 7 p.66 A bathhouse on the present Fordyce site that Samuel W. Fordyce had an interest in was also among those that burned. 11 p. 191 This was possibly Stat's Bathhouse (see tables of bathhouse rates for 1874-75). ... [Read More]
Hot Springs NP: A Chronology of Hot Springs Events
To protect this unique national resource and preserve it for the use of the public, the Arkansas Territorial Legislature requested in 1820 that the springs and adjoining mountains be set aside as a federal reservation (not to be confused with the Indian reservations being established around the same time). On April 20, 1832, President Andrew Jackson signed legislation to set aside "...four sections of land including said (hot) springs, reserved for the future disposal of the United States (which) shall not be entered, located, or appropriated, for any other purpose whatsoever." This makes Hot Springs National Park the oldest national park among current N. P. S. parks, predating Yellowstone National Park by forty years. Unfortunately, Congress failed to pass any legislation for administering the site. As a result, no controls were exerted in the area, and people continued to settle there, building businesses around and even over the springs. ... [Read More]
Local.Arkansas.gov - County and Municipal Information & Services
Garland County was formed on April 5, 1873, and was named for Augustus. H. Garland, Governor of Arkansas, U.S. Senator, and Glover Cleveland's Attorney General. Hot Springs, the county seat, has drawn visitors to the area for many years. The landscape of Garland County is rugged terrain and heavily forested Ouachita Mountains. In 1832, Hot Springs National Park became the first national reservation set aside for recreational purposes and is the only national park within a city. There are 47 springs along the base of the Hot Springs Mountain. The courthouse is the only one in Arkansas located in a national park. An Act of the United States Congress was required to acquire part of the block where the courthouse stands. Recreation and tourism have always been mainstays of the county's economy, along with livestock production and logging. One of the largest quartz crystal mining operations in North America is located in Garland County. The famous Oaklawn Park offers thoroughbred horse raci ... [Read More]
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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Arkansas Issued by the National Weather Service
Short Term Forecast Hot Spring (Arkansas) SHORT TERM FORECASTNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR550 PM CDT MON JUL 18 2005ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-182350-ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND-CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING-INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE-MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE-PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE-WOODRUFF-YELL-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ARKADELPHIA...ASH FLAT...AUGUSTA...BEEBE...SEARCY...BENTON...BRYANT...BOONEVILLE...BRINKLEY...CLARENDON...CAMDEN...CLARKSVILLE...CLINTON...CONWAY...DANVILLE...DARDANELLE...DES ARC...DEVALLS BLUFF...DEWITT...STUTTGART...FORDYCE...HAMPTON...HARRISON...HEBER SPRINGS...HOT SPRINGS...JASPER...LITTLE ROCK...NORTH LITTLE ROCK...MAUMELLE...JACKSONVILLE...SHERWOOD...LONOKE...CABOT...MARSHALL...MCGEHEE...ARKANSAS CITY...DUMAS...ME ... [Read More]
Geology of Hot Springs National Park
The rocks cropping out in the vicinity of the hot springs at HOSP are sedimentary rocks, although intruded igneous rocks are exposed in the region (Purdue and Miser, 1923; Bedinger and others, 1979). The sedimentary rocks are relatively old (Paleozoic) and consist of shale, chert, novaculite, and sandstone. The most areally extensive formations with outcrops near HOSP are the Stanley Shale, Hot Springs Sandstone Member of the Stanley Shale, Arkansas Novaculite, and Bigfork Chert (fig. 3). The beds of sedimentary rocks generally are steeply inclined because of mountain building forces in late Paleozoic time. The flow system that yields thermal water to the hot springs of HOSP is not fully understood. Bedinger and others (1979) present data and conceptual and mathematical models based on geologic and geochemical data that describe the hot-springs flow system (fig. 4). They provide evidence that almost all of the hot-springs water is of local, meteoric (i.e., atmospheric) origin from rech ... [Read More]
Hot Springs National Park
Hot Springs National Park (NP), located in the City of Hot Springs, Arkansas, is a site that includes significant historical, cultural and natural resources. It is unique among National Parks in that it incorporates both an urban component and surrounding natural areas of the Zig Zag Mountains. The most significant feature of the Park is the 143-degree Fahrenheit thermal water that emanates from 47 springs located on the southwest side of Hot Springs Mountain. As a result of its temperature and mineral content, Hot Springs water has long been believed to have therapeutic qualities. It is legend that Native Americans regularly visited the site for as long as 10,000 years and it was frequently visited by French traders and trappers before the Louisiana Purchase made Arkansas part of the U.S. in 1803. As Arkansas became settled, disputes arose over ownership of the water, and in 1832 Hot Springs became the first area placed under Federal reservation solely to protect a natural resource. B ... [Read More]
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Hot Springs National Park (National Park Service)
Congress established Hot Springs Reservation on April 20, 1832 to protect hot springs flowing from the western slope of Hot Springs Mountain. This makes it the oldest area currently in the National Park System--40 years older than Yellowstone National Park. People have used the hot spring water in therapeutic baths for more than two hundred years to treat rheumatism and other ailments. The reservation eventually developed into a well-known resort nicknamed "The American Spa" because it attracted not only the wealthy but also indigent health seekers from around the world. Today the park protects eight historic bathhouses with the former luxurious Fordyce Bathhouse housing the park visitor center. The entire "Bathhouse Row" area is a National Historic Landmark District that contains the grandest collection of bathhouses of its kind in North America. By protecting the 47 hot springs and their watershed, the National Park Service continues to provide visitors with historic leisure activiti ... [Read More]
ATSDR - Health Consultation - Malvern, Hot Springs County, Arkansas
Willamette Industries is a medium density fiberboard (MDFB) plant located on Gifford Road,northeast of Malvern, in Hot Springs County, Arkansas. The operation was formally owned byInternational Paper and produced particle board. Willamette bought the site in 1982 and in 1983began to use the facility to manufacture MDFB. MDFB and other pressed wood products areproduced by combining wood pieces or chips with an adhesive and other chemicals (includingurea - HCHO resins) and then pressing the mixture in hot hydraulic presses. A major concerninvolving MDFB is the amount of formaldehyde (HCHO) emissions that can be liberated from the product. ... [Read More]
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