Wesley Copeland House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Wesley Copeland House is a historic house in rural western Stone County, Arkansas. Located on the north side of a rural road south of Timbo, it is single-story dogtrot log house, finished in weatherboard and topped by a gable roof that overhangs the front porch.”
Wikipedia article Wesley Copeland House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1985 · 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. Copeland, Wesley, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. SE of Timbo, Timbo, 72680
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Stone County MRA
District. District 2
National Register reference number. 85002208 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

46 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Wesley Copeland House between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,140 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	134 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	32 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wesley Copeland House: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Stone	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this property

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Timbo, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail. 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
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Timbo	$10,000	Trees were blown down.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Timbo	$5,000	Trees were blown down along Arkansas 66.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Timbo	$3,000	Several trees were blown down.
June 2023	Hail	Timbo	-	Tea cup sized hail fell in Timbo.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Timbo	-	Power lines and trees were blown down on Ramsey Cemetery Rd.
March 2007	Hail	Timbo	-	Golfball size hail fell for a few minutes from 0.5 mile north of Timbo to Fifty Six.
June 2011	Hail	Timbo	-	no account filed
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Timbo	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Timbo	-	no account filed
January 2002	Hail	Timbo	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Timbo	-	no account filed
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Timbo	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Timbo	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Timbo	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Timbo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Jim Morris Barn	1.1 miles	1985
George Anderson House	3.6 miles	1985
John Avey Barn	3.9 miles	1985
Clarence Anderson Barn	4.0 miles	1985
Orvall Gammill Barn	4.4 miles	1985
Alco School	4.5 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002208 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stone County	All 58 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.