Thomas J. Hankins House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Hankins House is a historic house in the crossroads hamlet of Sand Gap in far northern Pope County, Arkansas. It is located about 375 feet (114 m) north of the junction of Arkansas Highways 123 and 7, on the west side of Highway 7.”
Wikipedia article Thomas J. Hankins House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Pope County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hankins, Thomas J., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W. side of AR 7 approx. 375 ft. N. of jct. with AR 123, Pelsor, 72856
When was it listed? September 2013
Category. building
District. District 4
National Register reference number. 13000788 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Thomas J. Hankins House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,536 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ROAD SIDE
17 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	KINGS BLUFF
9 April 2006	Natural	37 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	COLEMAN
7 April 2006	Natural	130 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SULPHUR CREEK
6 April 2004	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HEFFLEY
2 April 2005	Arson/incendiarism	4.2 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	GREEN HAW
2 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ROBERTSON ROAD

Every fire recorded in Pope 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 Thomas J. Hankins House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Pelsor Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Pope 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000788 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pope County	All 38 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.