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Ten Mile House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Ten Mile House is a historic house at 6915 Stagecoach Road in the Mabelvale neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a brick building, with a gabled roof and four end chimneys, each pair joined by a high wall extending above the gable ridge.”

Wikipedia article Ten Mile House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 383 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of Mabelvale on AR 5, Mabelvale, 72204
  • When was it listed? June 1970
  • Category. building
  • Township. Big Rock township
  • National Register reference number. 70000129 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

52 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Ten Mile House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning165 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2007Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Ten Mile House: 12 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Fullers Earth. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
No NameFullers EarthUnknown
No NameSlate, DimensionUnknown
No NameLimestone, DimensionUnknown
No NameLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Pulaski County Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
East Bauxite AreaAluminumUnknown
Mablevale AreaAluminumUnknown
Saddle AreaAluminumUnknown

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mabelvale, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2012: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 5 deaths and 180 injuries. 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 1997Tornado (F4)Mabelvale5 killed, 180 hurt, $50,000,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMabelvale$40,000A tree was down on a car and power lines were down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMabelvale$15,000Tree limbs were thrown into the air, and some of the limbs landed on vehicles.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindMabelvale$10,000Trees were blown down in the area of Chicot Elementary School in Little Rock.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindMabelvale$10,000Trees were blown down near Southwest Hospital in Little Rock.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMabelvale$5,000Ten large trees were blown down.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMabelvale$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some phone lines.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMabelvale$1,000A large tree was blown down.
May 2008HailMabelvale-Hail was reported at the intersection of Interstate 430 and Interstate 30.
May 2008HailMabelvale-Hail fell in the Crystal Valley Road area.
March 2008HailMabelvale-Quarter sized hail fell in the Otter Creek area of Little Rock.
March 2008HailMabelvale-Nickel sized hail fell in the Otter Creek area of Little Rock.
May 2008HailMabelvale-Hail fell at the intersection of Chicot Road and Mabelvale Cutoff.
April 2009HailMabelvale-no account filed
June 2009HailMabelvale-no account filed
June 2009HailMabelvale-no account filed
June 2009HailMabelvale-no account filed
April 2003HailMabelvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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

6 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
Little Rock, The0.2 miles1970
Arkansas State Highway Department Headquarters1.4 miles2024
Smith, Morgan, Dr., House1.4 miles2009
Martin Cemetery Historic Section1.5 miles2017
Matthews-Storey House2.3 miles2015
Lake Nixon (Additional Documentation)3.0 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000129 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski CountyAll 383 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.