Joe Guffey House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Joe Guffey House is a historic house on the north side of Arkansas Highway 110 in rural southwestern Stone County, Arkansas. Located south of Arlberg in an area known as Old Lexington, it is a T-shaped single-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and foundation of stone piers.”
Wikipedia article Joe Guffey 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. Guffey, Joe, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. AR 110, Old Lexington, 72031
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Stone County MRA
District. District 4
National Register reference number. 85002211 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

76 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Joe Guffey House between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,968 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Natural	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	67 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Storms near this property

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Lexington, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2012: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010	Tornado (EF1)	Old Lexington	$75,000	This tornado exited Van Buren County northeast of Rubek and entered Stone County east-southeast of Old Lexington. One house had its roof damaged and a window blown out, and another house had roof damage. The porch and the roof of a mobile home were damaged. Sheds were destroyed and barns were damaged. Trees and power lines were blown down. The city park at Fox suffered considerable damage.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Old Lexington	$50,000	Damages occurred across the county due to heavy rains.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Old Lexington	$10,000	Several trees were blown down. One of the trees landed on the porch of a house.

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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bonds House	5.1 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002211 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.
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.