Reeves-Melson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Reeves-Melson House is a historic house in rural Montgomery County, Arkansas. It is a private inholding within Ouachita National Forest, located on the east side of Miles Road, north of Bonnerdale and east of Alamo.”
Wikipedia article Reeves-Melson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Montgomery 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.
Address. SE of Montgomery adjacent to branch of Mazarn Creek, Bonnerdale, 71933
When was it listed? December 1985
Category. building
Township. Alamo township
National Register reference number. 85003069 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Reeves-Melson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 903 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 30 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	38
Arson/incendiarism	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
9 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Ouachita National Forest	MEYERS
28 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	120
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	10 acres	Ouachita National Forest	MEYERS CREEK PIT

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Reeves-Melson House: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Hendrickson Clay Deposit	Clay	Unknown
No Name	Slate, Dimension	Past Producer
Plemmons Prospect	Manganese	Unknown
Unknown	Silica	Unknown
Woodall Deposit	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Unknown

Every working 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 85003069 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.
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.