Uncle Willie Huffines Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Baxter County · listed in 2025 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 19 structuress, 4 objectss, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 11812 Arkansas Highway 14, Big Flat, 72617
When was it listed? 2025-01-13
Category. site
District. District 11
National Register reference number. 100011299 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Uncle Willie Huffines Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,282 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 123 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	123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TRASH
30 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named
29 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	FLAT
18 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SPRING
15 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	GARAGE
15 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TIE
14 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	FARRIS

Every fire recorded in Baxter 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 Uncle Willie Huffines Park: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
	Earl Sword Property	Manganese	Prospect

Every working recorded in Baxter County

Storms near this property

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Flat, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 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
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Flat	$10,000	A picture was shown on social media of a tree blown over onto a truck in Big Flat.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Flat	-	Thunderstorm winds downed or snapped numerous trees, with one tree on a mobile home. A window was also blown out.
April 2014	Hail	Big Flat	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Big Flat	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Big Flat	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baxter 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

2 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
	Domino Shed	1.7 miles	2025
	Big Flat School Gymnasium	1.7 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011299 in Record Group 79.
Baxter County	All 25 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.