Old US 71-Little River Approach

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 17 National Register listings published here for Sevier County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Listed as. Old US 71--Little River Approach - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Ashely Camp Rd. from the N bank of the Little R to S of the old US 71 and AR 27, Ben Lomond, 71846
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. structure
Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
Township. Paraclifta township
National Register reference number. 04000493 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

49 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Old US 71-Little River Approach between 1998 and 2019, burning about 583 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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	16
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
3 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	45 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
1 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Sevier 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-Little River Approach: 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 Sevier County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ben Lomond, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ben Lomond	1 hurt, $15,000	A weigh station was damaged and numerous trees down.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ben Lomond	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged two barns.
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ben Lomond	$20,000	Wind damage was reported to the front porch of a home and the chimney of the same house.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ben Lomond	-	Several trees were blown down in Ben Lomond.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ben Lomond	-	A 70 mph wind gust was measured in the Ben Lomond community.
October 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ben Lomond	-	Large tree limbs fell, damaging powerlines and a street light in the Ben Lomond community.
May 2008	Hail	Ben Lomond	-	Hail fell along Hwy 27 just west of the Howard County line.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ben Lomond	-	Numerous trees and power lines down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ben Lomond	-	Numerous trees down.
March 1999	Flash Flood	Ben Lomond	-	Portions of Hwy 27 washed out.

Every storm recorded in Sevier 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

1 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
	Oak Grove Rosenwald School	6.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000493 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sevier County	All 17 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.