Photograph of Old U.S. Route 71 — Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old US 71-Wilton Segement

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Route 71 is a U.S. route that runs from Krotz Springs, LA to the Fort Frances-International Falls International Bridge at the Canadian border. In Arkansas, the highway runs from the Louisiana state line near Doddridge to the Missouri state line near Bella Vista.”
Wikipedia article U.S. Route 71 in Arkansas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Little River County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure · built in 1934.

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

The listing

Listed as. Old US 71--Wilton Segement - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of US 71 form Old US 71 and US 71 jct. N to the S bank of the Little River, Wilton, 71822
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. structure
Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
District. District 4
When was it built? 1934
National Register reference number. 04000492 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

58 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Old US 71-Wilton Segement between 1998 and 2019, burning about 826 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 12 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	12
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2015	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Little River 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 Old US 71-Wilton Segement: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wilton Pits & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Little River County

Storms near this property

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilton, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 14 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 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 2009	Flash Flood	Wilton	$100,000	Flash flood waters beginning to enter a few homes in Ashdown, Arkansas.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	$5,000	Several trees were downed.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	A tree was blown down just west of the Wilton community.
March 2016	Hail	Wilton	-	Dime size hail reported just southwest of Wilton.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	A few trees and power lines were downed in the Wilton community.
February 2013	Hail	Wilton	-	Hail fell 2 miles east of Wilton, Arkansas.
October 2012	Hail	Wilton	-	Hail was reported near Wilton, Arkansas.
October 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	Several trees downed around Wilton, Arkansas.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	A tree was downed in the town of Wilton, Arkansas.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	A tree was downed in the Wilton, Arkansas community.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilton	-	Winds tore a roof off the Hanson Aggregates office and felled several large trees.
August 1993	Hail	Wilton	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees.
August 1993	Hail	Wilton	-	Several trees were downed.
October 2010	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
February 2005	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
October 1996	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
October 1993	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
May 1993	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed
October 1993	Hail	Wilton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Little River 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
Mills Cemetery	0.4 miles	2007
Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Depot	1.8 miles	2008
S. S. P. Mills and Son Building	1.9 miles	1996
Old US 71-Ashdown Segment	5.8 miles	2013
Judge Jefferson Thomas Cowling House	6.2 miles	1988
Old US 71-Ashdown Segment	6.3 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000492 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Little River County	All 20 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.