Butterfield Overland Mail Route Segment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Butterfield Overland Mail Route Segment is a stretch of historic roadway in Washington and Crawford counties in northwestern Arkansas. It consists of more than 13 miles (21 km) of adjoining sections of Bugscuffle and Old Cove City Roads that were once part of the major north-south route between Fayetteville and Van Buren, which are documented to have existed since 1839.”
Wikipedia article Butterfield Overland Mail Route Segment, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2010 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. Bugscuffle Rd S of Strickler and Old Cove City Rd N of Chester, Strickler, 72948
When was it listed? June 2010
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 10000347 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Butterfield Overland Mail Route Segment between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,121 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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	39
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	DRIFTWOOD
15 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named
19 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named
19 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strickler, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 flood, 2 flash flood. 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
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Strickler	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged several chicken houses.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Strickler	$8,000	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Strickler-	$3,000	no account filed
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Strickler	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and large tree limbs at Devil's Den State Park.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Strickler	$100	5-inch diameter tree and several large tree limbs blown down in Devils Den State Park
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Strickler	$100	A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds which downed trees at Devils Den State Park 6 miles southeast of Strickler.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Strickler	$100	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Strickler	$100	no account filed
June 2019	Flash Flood	Strickler	-	Portions of Highway 265 near Strickler were reported closed due to flooding.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Strickler	-	Portions of South Cove Creek Road were flooded and closed.
December 2015	Flood	Strickler	-	A section of Highway 220 was closed due to rock slide.
December 2015	Flood	Strickler	-	Portions of Highway 220 were closed due to flooding.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Strickler	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour snapped the top of a 6 inch diameter tree off.
April 2004	Tornado (F1)	Strickler	-	A F1 tornado briefly touched down just northeast of Strickler. Damage was confined to broken tree limbs and blown down trees.
March 2017	Hail	Strickler	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Strickler	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Strickler	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Strickler	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Strickler	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Strickler	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Strickler	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Strickler	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Strickler	-	no account filed
October 1995	Hail	Strickler	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Devil's Den State Park Historic District	5.3 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000347 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.
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.