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One of 16 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Villines Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- Address. N of Boxley on AR 43, Boxley, 72670
- When was it listed? July 1974
- Category. building
- Township. Van Buren township
- National Register reference number. 74000482 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
55 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Villines Mill between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,644 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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 | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 36 acres | Buffalo National River | HIPPIE |
| 20 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Buffalo National River | RUNNING CREEK |
| 6 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 August 2012 | Natural | 2.3 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | GRASSY POINT |
| 12 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 55 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 July 2012 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 July 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Villines Mill: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ponca | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Bennett | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Brewer | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Mmcelhaney | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Peck Mine | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Beechwood | Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Ponca City Mine | Zinc | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boxley, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 | Hail | Boxley | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported near Boxley. |
| July 2014 | Heavy Rain | Boxley | - | Rainfall measured 2.16 inches in less than two hours at Boxley. |
| January 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boxley | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged a church and the roofs of several homes. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boxley | - | Several trees were blown down on Highway 21. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Boxley | - | Hail up to one inch in diameter damaged some crops just to the southeast of Boxley. |
| January 2002 | Hail | Boxley | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Big Buffalo Valley Historic District | 2.6 miles | 1987 |
| Valley Y Ranch | 4.7 miles | 2023 | |
 | Flowers Cabin | 7.8 miles | 2021 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74000482 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Newton County | All 16 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.