Huddleston Store and McKinzie Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Huddleston Store and McKinzie Store, also known as the Lum 'n' Abner Jot 'Em Down Store and Museum, are a historic museum property on Arkansas Highway 88 in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. These two wood-frame retail buildings are all that remain of the pre-1920 buildings of the town; they were constructed by Dick Huddleston in 1912 and A.A.”
Wikipedia article Huddleston Store and McKinzie Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1984 · 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. AR 88, Pine Ridge, 71961
When was it listed? October 1984
Category. building
Township. Oden township
National Register reference number. 84000007 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Huddleston Store and McKinzie Store between 1992 and 2016, burning about 842 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 14 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	14
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	11
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2006	Smoking	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2011	Natural	33 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2011	Natural	159 acres	Ouachita National Forest	OPAL
26 August 2000	Smoking	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	LITTEL ROUND MT.

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Ridge, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 4 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
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Ridge	1 hurt	A large tree limb fell and injured a person.
September 2008	Flash Flood	Pine Ridge	$100,000	Flooding occurred across the county.
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Pine Ridge	$50,000	This tornado exited Polk County east-northeast of Opal and entered Montgomery County southwest of Pine Ridge. In Montgomery County, numerous trees and some power lines were blown down.
September 2008	Flash Flood	Pine Ridge	$50,000	Approximately 5.5 inches of rain fell. Low water bridges and crossings were flooded.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Ridge	$40,000	A 40'X60' pole barn was blown down.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Ridge	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
April 2026	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	Golf-ball sized hail fell near the town Huddleston.
March 2023	Heavy Rain	Pine Ridge	-	The COOP observer reported 2.05 inches of rain.
August 2023	Heavy Rain	Pine Ridge	-	Co-Op observer measured 4.10 inches of total rainfall over a 24 hour period with rain still falling.
April 2022	Flash Flood	Pine Ridge	-	This was a delayed report. The Montgomery county judge relayed info to the fire chief/MT. Ida COOP of road washouts on Hwy. 88 and on Hwy. 8 near the Polk/Montgomery county border. Road crews were getting roads cleared and reopened. The event time is subject to change due to the delayed report.
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Ridge	-	Multiple trees and powerlines were blown down in Pine Ridge.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Ridge	-	A tree fell onto a church.
September 2020	Heavy Rain	Pine Ridge	-	The Pine Ridge COOP observer reported 4.02 inches of rain.
April 2017	Heavy Rain	Pine Ridge	-	The 24 hour rainfall total was 3.42 inches.
September 2009	Heavy Rain	Pine Ridge	-	Pine Ridge broke the record for the greatest rainfall ever recorded in the month of September.
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Pine Ridge	-	The local observer reported 4.09 inches of rain fell in about two and a half hours.
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Ridge	-	Trees were downed.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Ridge	-	Tree down on Highway 88 near town.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Ridge	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a number of trees, some street signs and tore shingles off several houses.
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Ridge	-	Trees blown down.
March 2004	Lightning	Pine Ridge	-	Just before a severe thunderstorm arrived, lightning triggered a house fire in Pine Ridge...with the house heavily damaged. Firemen said they were pelted by hail as they tried to extinguish the blaze.
May 2003	Tornado (F2)	Pine Ridge	-	A strong tornado moved from southeast Polk County into southwest Montgomery County about 8.5 miles south-southwest of Pine Ridge. Widespread tree damage was noted along the path of the tornado. The tornado lifted about 9 miles south of Pine Ridge.
September 2001	Flash Flood	Pine Ridge	-	Thunderstorms that produced heavy rains caused flash flooding 2 miles south of Pine Ridge. A road washed out and a bridge sustained damage.
March 2020	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
October 1999	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Pine Ridge	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000007 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 13 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.
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.