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One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Morrow Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 16995 Hale Mountain Rd., Morrow, 72717
- When was it listed? January 2021
- Category. building
- Township. Morrow township
- National Register reference number. 100006044 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
29 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Morrow Farmstead between 1996 and 2017, burning about 478 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Morrow Farmstead: 4 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.
Storms near this property
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrow, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrow | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrow | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour rolled over a mobile home and did damage to poultry buildings. This damage was originally thought to be associated with a tornado but a storm survey team determined it was due to the rear flank downdraft of the supercell storm that produced a tornado northeast of Strickler a few minutes later. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Morrow | - | Heavy rain caused secondary roads near Morrow to be flooded. A man had to be rescued when his truck was swept off a low water crossing. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrow | - | Thunderstorm wnds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Morrow | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Morrow | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Morrow | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Morrow | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Morrow | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bethlehem Cemetery | 1.4 miles | 2000 |
 | Twin Bridges Historic District | 1.4 miles | 1994 |
 | Pyeatte Mill Site | 3.2 miles | 1982 |
 | R.L. Leach Grocery Store | 3.3 miles | 2018 |
 | Cane Hill Battlefield | 3.5 miles | 1994 |
 | Evansville-Dutch Mills Road Bridge | 3.6 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006044 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.