Mack Morton Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Mack Morton Barn is a historic eleven-sided barn at 11516 Appleby Road in Appleby, Arkansas. Built about 1900 to house cows and horses, it is sheathed in board-and-batten siding and topped by a hip roof with an eleven-sided cupola at the center.”
Wikipedia article Mack Morton Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2005 · 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. Morton, Mack, Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 11516 Appleby Rd., Appleby, 72730
When was it listed? February 2005
Category. building
Township. Farmington township
National Register reference number. 05000047 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Mack Morton Barn between 1997 and 2018, burning about 167 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2

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
7 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2006	Smoking	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 April 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mack Morton Barn: 3 past producers. None of them 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

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Walnut Grove Presbyterian Church	1.8 miles	1995
Rieff's Chapel Cemetery	2.0 miles	2021
Deepwood House	2.1 miles	2018
Cane Hill Road Bridge	2.1 miles	2010
Johnson Barn	2.2 miles	1990
Benjamin Franklin Johnson II Homestead District	2.3 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000047 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 160 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.