Mays General Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Mays General Store is a historic commercial building on Frost Street in Gilbert, Arkansas, United States. It is a single-story vernacular brick building, built as two separate buildings in 1901 and 1906, at which time the intervening wall was knocked out.”
Wikipedia article Mays General Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Searcy County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Front St., Gilbert, 72675
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Township. Tomahawk township
National Register reference number. 83001166 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Mays General Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,208 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 59 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	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Debris and open burning	19
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Other causes	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
16 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Buffalo National River	DUFFER
20 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Buffalo National River	SAPLING
31 July 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Buffalo National River	NORTHSIDE
6 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Buffalo National River	UNDERGROUND WF
28 May 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Buffalo National River	DRIFTPILE1
28 May 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Buffalo National River	DRIFTPILE2
26 May 2014	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Buffalo National River	SAND HOLE ROAD
25 May 1996	Smoking	under an acre	Buffalo National River	AMPITHEATR

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mays General Store: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
	Buffalo River Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Mud Hollow	Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilbert, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilbert	$1,000	Large limbs were blown down.
May 2015	Flood	Gilbert	-	The Buffalo River at St. Joe rose above flood stage during the morning hours of the 11th, falling back below flood stage late that evening.
July 2009	Heavy Rain	Gilbert	-	Gilbert broke the record for the greatest rainfall ever recorded in the month of July.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Gilbert	-	The Arkansas Highway 333 bridge near Gilbert was flooded.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilbert	-	no account filed
June 1999	Flash Flood	Gilbert	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilbert	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Gilbert	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District	2.2 miles	2000
Benjamin Franklin Henley House	5.2 miles	1985
St. Joe Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot	5.6 miles	1993
Henley Hotel	5.7 miles	2011
Thomas Lynch House	6.7 miles	1993
W. F. Reeves House	6.9 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001166 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Searcy County	All 52 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.