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One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Miles Jeffery Barn
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Jeffery, Miles, Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Off AR 5, Optimus, 72560
- When was it listed? September 1985
- Category. building
- Also known as. Stone County MRA
- District. District 1
- National Register reference number. 85002215 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
96 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Miles Jeffery Barn between 1993 and 2020, burning about 947 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 26 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 | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | GREEN |
| 6 September 1995 | Natural | 12 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | CHUCK |
| 4 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | LONG |
| 27 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | ROSA |
| 14 September 2000 | Smoking | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | BEAR |
| 12 September 2000 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | CHRIS |
| 7 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | FREEMAN |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Miles Jeffery Barn: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Allison Mine & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Allison Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Optimus, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2009: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Optimus | $150,000 | Flooding occurred throughout the Mountain View area and at the Martin Access Road near Arkansas Highway 14. Many county roads and some small bridges were damaged. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Optimus | - | A weak tornado touched down about 2.5 miles west of Optimus and then quickly lifted. The only damage noted were some downed tree limbs and a few tops out of trees. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Optimus | - | A weak tornado affected areas about 3 to 4 miles east of Optimus in Stone County...mainly in the Boswell Access Area of the White River. The tornado mostly caused tree damage before moving into Izard County. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Optimus | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Optimus | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mirror Lake Historic District | 3.4 miles | 1995 |
 | Sylamore Creek Bridge | 3.5 miles | 1999 |
| North Sylamore Creek Bridge | 5.1 miles | 2010 | |
 | Fred Lancaster Barn | 5.4 miles | 1985 |
 | William Dillard Homestead | 6.1 miles | 1985 |
| William Dillard Homestead | 6.2 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85002215 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.