Saddle Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Saddle Store is a historic general store and gas station on the east side of Arkansas Highway 289 in the hamlet of Saddle in eastern Fulton County, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame vernacular structure with a gable roof, set parallel to and near the road.”
Wikipedia article Saddle Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. AR 289, Saddle, 72554
When was it listed? November 2000
Category. building
Township. Myatt township
National Register reference number. 00001366 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

83 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Saddle Store between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,387 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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 burning	40
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	58 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2010	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saddle Store: 2 unknowns. 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
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this property

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saddle, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Saddle	$5,000	Large trees were uprooted around Saddle.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Saddle	-	Large limbs were blown down in the area.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Saddle	-	Low water crossings across the area were flooded.
September 2006	Tornado (F2)	Saddle	-	A strong tornado was spawned in eastern Fulton County. The tornado tracked from 5 miles east of Saddle to 7.5 miles southeast of Mammoth Spring. The tornado destroyed a home, and caused damage to several other homes. Hundreds of trees were downed, with one tree on a pickup truck. The tornado continued into northern Sharp County.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Saddle	-	Some trees were knocked down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Saddle	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
June 2018	Hail	Saddle	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Saddle	-	no account filed
February 2006	Hail	Saddle	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Saddle	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Saddle	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Camp Methodist Church	6.7 miles	1997
	AR 289 Bridge Over English Creek	7.2 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001366 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton County	All 11 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.