Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lee Creek Road Segment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lee Creek Road Segment is a historic stretch of road in Crawford County, Arkansas. It is a 3.1-mile (5.0 km) segment of Lee Creek Road, which diverges from Arkansas Highway 220 north of Cedarville.”
Wikipedia article Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lee Creek Road Segment, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 2009 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. Lee Creek Rd. W. of AR 220, Cedarville, 72934
When was it listed? September 2009
Category. structure
District. District 1
National Register reference number. 09000770 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lee Creek Road Segment between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,256 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 88 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	88
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Natural	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	DRIFTWOOD
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	OLIVER CEMETARY

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this property

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedarville, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedarville	$200,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedarville	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house.
December 2010	Hail	Cedarville	$10,000	no account filed
April 2025	Flash Flood	Cedarville	-	The Thompson Road bridge was closed due to high water.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedarville	-	Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedarville	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedarville	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs on Highway 59 near Cedarville.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Cedarville	-	Highway 59 was flooded from Natural Dam to Cedarville.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Cedarville	-	Flood water flowed over portions of Mill Pond Road southeast of town.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedarville	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree.
March 1999	Hail	Cedarville	-	There was a report of quarter-sized hail in Cedarville, and there was another report of quarter-sized hail 2 miles south of Cedarville.
April 1994	Hail	Cedarville	-	A funnel cloud was observed by the public.
April 1993	Hail	Cedarville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down two barns and damaged a chicken house. A fence was also destroyed and several trees were uprooted.
May 2024	Hail	Cedarville	-	no account filed
March 2018	Hail	Cedarville	-	no account filed
February 2013	Hail	Cedarville	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Cedarville	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Cedarville	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedarville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Cedarville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Cedarville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Cedarville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Funnel Cloud	Cedarville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Lee Creek Bridge	3.0 miles	1990
Lee Creek Bridge	3.0 miles	1990
Wing School	3.5 miles	2023
Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lucian Wood Road Segment	4.2 miles	2009
Cedarville School Building	5.7 miles	1992
No. 12 School	6.0 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000770 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crawford County	All 35 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.