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Photograph of Parker-Hickman Farm Historic District
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Parker-Hickman Farm Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Parker-Hickman Farm includes the oldest standing log structure in Buffalo National River. The farm was homesteaded in the 1840s by settlers from Tennessee.”

Wikipedia article Parker-Hickman Farm Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Parker--Hickman Farm Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Buffalo National River, Erbie, 72641
  • When was it listed? August 1987
  • Category. district
  • Township. Marble Falls township
  • National Register reference number. 87001029 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

72 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Parker-Hickman Farm Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,288 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBuffalo National RiverBISHOP FIRE
29 August 2000Arson/incendiarism14 acresBuffalo National RiverBEESTING
28 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBuffalo National RiverSOUTH OF PRUITT
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBuffalo National RiverMILL CREK POWERLINE
12 June 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBuffalo National RiverPRUITT - MILL CREEK BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION SITE

Every fire recorded in Newton 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 Parker-Hickman Farm Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lee Roy MineLead, ZincUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
Boulder ProspectLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Erbie, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2004: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Thunderstorm WindErbie-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindErbie-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of several buildings and blew down some large tree limbs.
May 2004HailErbie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Jasper Commercial Historic District4.7 miles2010
Buffalo River Bridge4.7 miles1990
Buffalo River Bridge4.7 miles1990
Harp Creek Bridge4.8 miles1990
Newton County Jail4.8 miles1994
Harp Creek Bridge4.8 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001029 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton CountyAll 16 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.