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William P. and Rosa Lee Martin Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The William P. and Rosa Lee Martin Farm is a historic farm property in rural Searcy County, Arkansas. It contains all but two of the original buildings of a farmstead established in 1922, representing a remarkably complete collection of outbuildings in addition to the main house.”

Wikipedia article William P. and Rosa Lee Martin Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Searcy County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Martin, William P. and Rosa Lee, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 7429 Campbell Rd., Marshall, 72650
  • When was it listed? June 2011
  • Category. building
  • Township. Long Creek township
  • National Register reference number. 11000356 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

66 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of William P. and Rosa Lee Martin Farm between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,571 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2006Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 May 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 2016Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this property

57 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshall, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 35 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1997Thunderstorm WindMarshall$2,000,000no account filed
March 2008Flash FloodMarshall$1,200,000Localized flooding was reported across the county. The Health Department and Civic Center in Marshall had minor flooding in the building, Arkansas Highway 333 at Gilbert was blocked due to flooding. Part of Arkansas Highway 74 near Calf Creek was washed out.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMarshall$250,000Numerous trees were blown down, with some trees landing on houses. A boat was flipped over. Houses and businesses were damaged. There were also reports of trees being blown down in other sections of the county.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMarshall$50,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn.
January 2007Flash FloodMarshall$31,700Several roads across Searcy County were flooded due to heavy rainfall.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMarshall$15,000Multiple trees were blown down along U.S. Highway 65.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMarshall$10,000Trees were blown down.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindMarshall$6,000Severe thunderstorm winds just over 60 mph downed several trees and damaged the roofs of a few buildings in Marshall.
December 2010Thunderstorm WindMarshall$5,000Several trees were blown down in the city of Marshall.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMarshall$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMarshall$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindMarshall$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindMarshall$2,000A tree was blown down on U.S. 65.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindMarshall$2,000A tree was down on U.S. Highway 65.
June 2023HailMarshall-Golf ball sized hail fell on the south side of Marshall.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Trees were down on roads across the city.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Debris blocked U.S. Highway 65 just north of Arkansas Highway 74.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto a power line.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Thunderstorm winds tore the roof of a barn.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Thunderstorm winds gusting up to 67 mph, knocked down a few trees.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMarshall-The steel framework of a building under construction was blown down at the county airport in Marshall.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Thunderstorm winds blew down some power lines.
April 1993HailMarshall-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
April 2014HailMarshall-no account filed
April 2011HailMarshall-no account filed
April 2011HailMarshall-no account filed
April 2011HailMarshall-no account filed
March 2011HailMarshall-no account filed
June 2007HailMarshall-no account filed
June 2007HailMarshall-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
April 2004Flash FloodMarshall-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
March 2003HailMarshall-no account filed
May 2003HailMarshall-no account filed
May 2003HailMarshall-no account filed
October 2003HailMarshall-no account filed
January 2000Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
March 2000HailMarshall-no account filed
May 2000HailMarshall-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
May 1998HailMarshall-no account filed
May 1998HailMarshall-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
April 1996HailMarshall-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed
April 1994HailMarshall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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

4 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Jasper E. Treece Building2.2 miles1993
Campbell Post Office-Kuykendall General Store4.4 miles1993
Sam Marshall House6.7 miles1993
Greene Thomas House7.4 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000356 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Searcy CountyAll 52 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.