Wingmead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Wingmead is a large farm and country estate in eastern Prairie County, Arkansas. Encompassing about 14,000 acres (5,700 ha) in all, it is one Arkansas's largest private estates, developed by Edgar Monsanto Queeny, a president of Monsanto Corporation.”
Wikipedia article Wingmead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Prairie County · listed in 2011 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. W. side of AR 33, 1/2 mi. S. of Eason Rd., Roe, 72041
When was it listed? May 2011
Category. district
Township. Roc Roe township
National Register reference number. 11000302 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wingmead between 1998 and 2001, burning about 133 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning	3
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
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2001	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 February 2000	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 October 1998	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Prairie 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

3 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
De Valls Bluff Waterworks	7.7 miles	2007
Prairie County Courthouse	7.7 miles	1995
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church	7.8 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000302 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Prairie County	All 15 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.