Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“Homestead is a historic farmstead at 15966 United States Route 270, near Poyen, Arkansas. The main house of the farmstead is a single story dogtrot structure, with one log pen built in 1848, and a second pen built out of pine planking in 1850, with a gabled roof covering both pens and the breezeway between.”
Wikipedia article Samuel D. Byrd Sr. Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 04001494 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
178 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Samuel D. Byrd Sr. Homestead
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,138 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 68 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
Arson/incendiarism
68
Debris and open burning
56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
34
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Natural
6
Smoking
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Samuel D. Byrd Sr. Homestead: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium. 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
Poyen, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado.
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.
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.
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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