Capt. Goodgame House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Goodgame House is a historic house at 45 Highway 128 in Holly Springs, Arkansas. Built in 1918, this single story wood-frame house is an unusual late and high quality example of a vernacular style of house architecture more typically seen in 19th century construction in the area.”
Wikipedia article Capt. Goodgame House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Dallas 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Goodgame, Capt., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. AR 128, Holly Springs, 71763
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Dallas County MRA
Township. Holly Springs township
National Register reference number. 83003471 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

64 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Capt. Goodgame House between 1997 and 2019, burning about 678 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Natural	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2011	Natural	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Capt. Goodgame House: 9 past producers, 7 unknowns, 5 producers. 5 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Eagle Mills Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Garner Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit & Plant #3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit & Plant No 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Triangle Gravel Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas 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
Brazeale Homestead	3.8 miles	1983
Ed Knight House	5.3 miles	1983
Sardis Methodist Church	6.1 miles	1983
Mt. Carmel Methodist Church	7.3 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003471 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallas County	All 41 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.