Freeborn T. Lasater House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Lasater House is a historic house at 494 Arkansas Highway 197 in New Blaine, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of uncoursed fieldstone, with petrified wood and Native American stone tools, discovered on the property, embedded at various points.”
Wikipedia article Freeborn T. Lasater House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Lasater, Freeborn T., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 494 AR 197, New Blaine, 72851
When was it listed? July 2002
Category. building
Also known as. New Blaine, Arkansas MPS
Township. Shoal Creek township
National Register reference number. 02000756 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Freeborn T. Lasater House between 1998 and 2018, burning about 730 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	REDS FIRE
19 September 2006	Natural	1.3 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BROCK #2
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2000	Natural	262 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BROCK CREEK
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Freeborn T. Lasater House: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Rv Mtn	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk Quarries 3	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Blaine, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 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
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	New Blaine	$5,000	A tree was blown down and damaged the metal roofing on two buildings.
April 2022	Hail	New Blaine	$2,000	Tennis ball hail was reported. Multiple storm chasers had windshields damaged.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	New Blaine	$2,000	A large oak tree was blown down.
September 2025	Flash Flood	New Blaine	-	A few county roads in the vicinity of New Blaine were flooded and impassable.
April 2022	Hail	New Blaine	-	Baseball to softball size hail was reported at New Blaine.
December 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	New Blaine	-	Sporadic tree damage occurred with associated power outages in eastern Logan County.
June 2012	Hail	New Blaine	-	Hail from quarter to golf ball size fell.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	New Blaine	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
April 2004	Tornado (F1)	New Blaine	-	A weak tornado was spawned in eastern Logan County a little more than a mile west of New Blaine. As the tornado touched down, it tore the roof off of a porch and threw it into a creek 75 yards away. About 4 miles southeast of New Blaine, an uprooted tree raised up the end of a house trailer. Another tree fell on two pickup trucks, with a shed destroyed. The tornado eventually tracked into northern Yell County.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	New Blaine	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	New Blaine	-	Some large tree limbs were knocked down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	New Blaine	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	New Blaine	-	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn, damaged some roofs, and knocked down some trees.
April 2014	Hail	New Blaine	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	New Blaine	-	no account filed
November 2003	Hail	New Blaine	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	New Blaine	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	New Blaine	-	no account filed
October 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	New Blaine	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Troy Lasater Service Station	under 500 feet	2002
Main Street Bridge	0.1 miles	2002
Farmer's State Bank	0.2 miles	2002
Arkansas Highway 22, Old	0.2 miles	2003
New Blaine School	0.4 miles	1992
Elizabeth Hall	0.6 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000756 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 44 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.