Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
From the record
“The Doe Branch Post Office is a historic house and post office in rural western Pulaski County, Arkansas. Located on the north side of Kanis Road, just west of its junction with Golden Eagle Drive, it is an L-shaped single-story structure built in a sequence of steps.”
Wikipedia article Doe Branch Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 383 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 01000003 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
93 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Doe Branch Post Office
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,013 acres in total. 11 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
25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
22
Arson/incendiarism
22
Natural
11
Recreation and ceremony
8
Equipment and vehicle use
5
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Doe Branch Post Office: 5 unknowns, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Silica, Nickel, Talc-Soapstone, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ferndale, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 5 tornado, 3 flash flood.
The reports record 3 deaths and 25 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.
A tornado began west of the Ferndale area, near the Saline/Pulaski County line. This was the first of five tornadoes produced by the same supercell thunderstorm. According to the American Red Cross, 7 houses were destroyed, 24 had major damage, 9 houses and 1 mobile home had minor damage, and 76 houses were affected in Pulaski County. Three members of one family, a 48-year-old male, a 20-year-old female, and a 14-year-old female, were killed in a house on Deer Dr. Communities affected included Ferndale and Roland. The tornado crossed the eastern portion of Lake Maumelle. The tornado exited Pulaski County 1.6 miles northeast of Roland, as it crossed the Arkansas River, and entered Faulkner County 0.6 mile southwest of Palarm.
This was the beginning of the tornado that was destined to cause major damage in Vilonia. In this section of Pulaski County, most of the damage consisted of trees being blown down. In addition, four large power transmission towers near the Arkansas River were destroyed. The tornado exited Pulaski County 1.31 miles northeast of Natural Steps and continued into Faulkner County 2.42 miles south of Palarm.
Delayed report...several social media videos were seen of quarter sized hail falling between Ferndale and Paron near the Pulaski and Saline county line.
Extensive tree damage and power lines were down in the vicinity of Waldenwood Lane and Denny Road. Roof damage was reported to several homes, along with chimney damage.
The storm that produced a weak tornado in western Saline County just north of Owensville spawned yet another weak tornado (F0) in western Pulaski County. The tornado touched down about 3 miles southeast of Ferndale and tracked northeast. The tornado mostly affected areas on hilltops, with trees uprooted and falling on at least one house. Some structural damage resulted at the home, with the roof mainly affected. The tornado dissipated roughly 5 miles southwest of Maumelle.
A weak tornado briefly touched down in western Pulaski County about 3 miles southeast of Ferndale. The tornado downed about 20 to 30 trees...some large...with one tree on a shed. Only minor structural damage was noted, with a window blown out of a house.
The Saline County tornado moved into Pulaski County 5.5 miles south of Ferndale at approximately 150 am CDT. The tornado travelled northeast for about 4.5 miles before lifting. Damage along the track of the tornado consisted of mainly trees and power lines being blown down. The damage was consistent with an F0 rating.
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
4 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.
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.
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