Darden-Gifford House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Darden-Gifford House is a historic house in rural White County, Arkansas, north of Arkansas Highway 5 near the community of Rose Bud. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a two-story porch sheltered by a projecting gable-roofed section.”
Wikipedia article Darden-Gifford House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1976 · 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.
Address. N of Rosebud off AR 5, Rosebud, 72137
When was it listed? January 1976
Category. building
Township. Cadron township
National Register reference number. 76000474 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

75 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Darden-Gifford House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,261 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 burning	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2012	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2000	Smoking	65 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Darden-Gifford House: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk Stone Quaries	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
E. D. Maddox Farm Chicken House	0.5 miles	1992
Mount Olive-Bedford Chapel Cemetery	6.0 miles	2019
Pence-Carmichael Farm, Barn and Root Cellar	7.0 miles	1992
Scott-Davis House	7.6 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000474 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White County	All 203 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.