Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
From the record
“The Butler-Matthews Homestead is a historic farm complex near the hamlet of Tulip in rural Dallas County, Arkansas. The property is historically significant for two reasons: the first is that it includes a collection of 15 farm-related buildings built between the 1850s and the 1920s, and it is the location of one of Dallas County's two surviving I-houses.”
Wikipedia article Butler-Matthews Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 83003465 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
60 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Butler-Matthews Homestead
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 766 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Debris and open burning
15
Arson/incendiarism
13
Natural
10
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
17 workings within 5 miles of Butler-Matthews Homestead: 15 unknowns, 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Tulip, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 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.
This tornado started west-northwest of Carthage along Tram Trail, moving northeast towards Sanders Loop, breaking limbs off or pushing over small pine trees. As the tornado moved over Williams Road, it strengthened briefly, knocking over larger pine trees before lifting west of the intersection of Williams Road and Dallas County Road 411. This tornado was rated an EF0 with estimated maximum winds of 85 mph.
A weak tornado touched down about 2.5 miles south-southwest of Tulip and tracked to the northeast before lifting about a mile north-northeast of Tulip. The only damage noted along the path of the tornado were a few trees broken off and a hay barn that was destroyed.
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.
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.
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