Elms, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Presently used as a waterfowl hunting lodge, The Elms is a historic plantation house in rural Jefferson County, Arkansas. Located a short way south of Altheimer, it is a raised Louisiana cottage, an architectural form that is extremely rare in Arkansas.”
Wikipedia article The Elms (Altheimer, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Altheimer, Altheimer, 72004
When was it listed? July 1978
Category. building
Township. Plum Bayou township
National Register reference number. 78000596 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Elms, The between 2001 and 2014, burning about 168 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4

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
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Debris and open burning	49 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2005	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Elms, The: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
	O Gilsby Prospect	Manganese	Past Producer	1918

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Altheimer, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Altheimer	1 hurt	A tree fell on a man, injuring him.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Altheimer	$15,000	Trees were blown down.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Altheimer	$1,000	Street flooding occurred in Altheimer.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Altheimer	$1,000	Minor damage occurred to an outbuilding.
March 2024	Hail	Altheimer	-	Half-dollar sized hail fell in the community of Altheimer.
September 2011	Hail	Altheimer	-	Hail up to the size of baseballs pounded Altheimer.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Altheimer	-	Power lines were blown down at Altheimer.
March 2015	Hail	Altheimer	-	no account filed
November 2004	Flash Flood	Altheimer	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Altheimer	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Altheimer	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Altheimer	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Altheimer	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Altheimer	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Altheimer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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

5 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
Roselawn	1.0 miles	1978
Lake Dick	3.5 miles	1975
Wabbaseka Methodist Episcopal Church, South	4.6 miles	2002
St. Peter's Cemetery	6.2 miles	1998
Gracie House	6.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000596 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 80 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.