Van Winkle's Mill Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Van Winkle's Mill Site is a historic 19th-century industrial site at 21392 Arkansas Highway 12 near Rogers, Arkansas, United States. The area, located in the hollow of Little Clifty Creek northeast of the junction of AR 12 with AR 127, includes the foundational remnants of a series of mills operated between 1850 and 1890 by Peter Van Winkle, a major figure in the lumber industry of northwestern Arkansas in the late 19th century.”
Wikipedia article Van Winkle's Mill Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2007 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 21392 E AR 12, Rogers, 72756
When was it listed? November 2007
Category. site
Township. Township 1
National Register reference number. 07001175 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

64 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Van Winkle's Mill Site between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,048 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	17
Debris and open burning	14
Smoking	3
Natural	2
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
14 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2012	Natural	380 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Van Winkle's Mill Site: 1 past producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Rogers	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

60 of 97 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rogers, the town this property stands in, in 97 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 49 hail, 43 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	2 hurt, $10,000	A tree was blown down onto a car injuring two people.
May 2013	Lightning	Rogers	2 hurt	Two people were struck and injured by lightning while outside in a parking lot. Both victims were transported to the hospital.
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$1,000,000	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Rogers	$250,000	Hail larger than baseball size damaged vehicles, homes, and businesses.
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$120,000	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Rogers	$75,000	no account filed
February 2023	Hail	Rogers	$50,000	Golf ball size hail damaged homes, businesses, and vehicles.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and blew down several small barns.
March 2015	Hail	Rogers	$50,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$50,000	no account filed
March 2025	Hail	Rogers	$30,000	Half dollar size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$25,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a home.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour produced a ten block wide swath of damage from downtown Rogers to two miles north to Highway 102. Most of the damage was trees trees and power lines blown down and trees falling on buildings and cars.
July 2018	Hail	Rogers	$25,000	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Rogers	$25,000	no account filed
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$20,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged fences and the roofs of homes.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds blew a tree onto a house.
March 2015	Hail	Rogers	$15,000	no account filed
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs and blew shingles from the roofs of homes.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs, some fell onto a vehicle.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted a tree that fell onto a home.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees. The falling trees downed power lines causing power outages.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$5,000	At least a half-dozen trees were blown down in Rogers. County road crews had to clear at least 50 trees and tree limbs that were blown into roads throughout Benton County.
May 2011	Hail	Rogers	$5,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs, and blew down power lines.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$2,000	Trees and power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$1,000	A large section of privacy fence was blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down power lines.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power lines.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$1,000	A tree was blown onto power lines near 14th and West Oak Streets in Rogers, knocking out power to 2,000 electric customers.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$500	Thunderstorms winds blew down many large tree limbs and trees west of Rogers.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$500	Numerous tree limbs were blown down around Rogers, Cave Springs, and Horseshoe Bend.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	$100	no account filed
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree.
February 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2021	Flash Flood	Rogers	-	Numerous roads were flooded in and around Rogers.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous large tree limbs.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Rogers	-	Heavy rainfall resulted in street flooding across town. A car was stranded in high water on Elm Street.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	An 85 mile an hour wind gust was reported by the broadcast media.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph blew down large tree limbs.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees in the Prairie Creek Campground area.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 miles an hour blew down a tree.
July 1999	Flood	Rogers	-	There was minor street flooding in Rogers.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Rogers	-	An isolated severe thunderstorm in Benton County produced wind gusts to 60 miles an hour in Bentonville and ten miles east of Rogers.
April 2026	Hail	Rogers	-	no account filed
March 2025	Hail	Rogers	-	no account filed
March 2025	Hail	Rogers	-	no account filed
April 2025	Hail	Rogers	-	no account filed
April 2025	Hail	Rogers	-	no account filed
April 2025	Hail	Rogers	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Rocky Branch School	1.9 miles	1988
War Eagle Bridge	2.4 miles	1985
Coal Gap School	4.8 miles	1992
Stack Barn	5.2 miles	1988
Shaw-Blair House	6.0 miles	2020
Oklahoma Row Hotel Site	6.4 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001175 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 162 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.