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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Little River County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Will Reed Farm House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Reed, Will, Farm House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Main St., Alleene, 71820
- When was it listed? July 1978
- Category. building
- District. District 1
- National Register reference number. 78000606 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
79 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Will Reed Farm House between 1998 and 2019, burning about 863 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 32 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 | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 86 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2000 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Will Reed Farm House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alleene, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2021 | Hail | Alleene | - | Ping pong ball size hail fell in the Alleene community. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleene | - | Large limbs were downed near Alleene. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Alleene | - | Highway 234 near the Alleene community was flooded. |
| March 2015 | Hail | Alleene | - | Penny size hail fell in the town of Alleene southeast of Winthrop, Arkansas. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleene | - | Trees were downed in the Alleene community northwest of Wilton, Arkansas. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alleene | - | Numerous trees were downed in Alleene, Arkansas. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mills Cemetery | 6.2 miles | 2007 |
 | Old US 71-Wilton Segement | 6.5 miles | 2004 |
 | Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Depot | 6.7 miles | 2008 |
 | S. S. P. Mills and Son Building | 6.8 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78000606 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Little River County | All 20 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.