Henry and Cornelia Ford Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Henry and Cornelia Ford Farm is a historic farmstead in rural Phillips County, Arkansas. It is at 1335 County Road 249, northeast of Lexa.”
Wikipedia article Henry and Cornelia Ford Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Ford, Henry and Cornelia, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1335 Phillips Cty Rd. 249, Lexa, 72355
When was it listed? March 2006
Category. building
Also known as. Cotton and Rice Farm History and Architecture in the Arkansas Delta MPS
Township. Cleburne township
National Register reference number. 06000085 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Henry and Cornelia Ford Farm between 1993 and 2015, burning about 220 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SYCAMORE
24 August 2000	Smoking	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	POPCORN
6 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BULL RUSH
25 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HANNON

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexa, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexa	$30,000	Straight-line winds damaged an outbuilding on Highway 242. A mobile home was pushed off block piers and two homes suffered roof damage along Highway 242.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexa	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Lexa.
April 1998	Hail	Lexa	$750	no account filed
March 2001	Hail	Lexa	$10	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Lexa	-	Quarter-sized hail observed in Lexa.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexa	-	Straight line winds blew several trees down in Lexa.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexa	-	Straight line winds knocked down a few trees in Lexa.
May 2024	Hail	Lexa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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
Helena Aero Tech Hangars	4.0 miles	2021
Eliza Miller Junior and Senior High School	5.1 miles	2024
Richardson-Turner House	5.1 miles	1998
Chicago Mill Company Office Building	6.0 miles	1996
Denison House	6.4 miles	1996
Faust House	6.8 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000085 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Phillips County	All 60 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.
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.