Piercy Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Piercy Farmstead is a historic farm complex on Osage Mills Road in Osage Mills, Arkansas. It includes a c. 1909 vernacular Colonial Revival farmhouse, and is unusual for the collection of ten surviving agricultural outbuildings, including storage buildings, chicken houses, a barn, privy, grain crib, and well house.”
Wikipedia article Piercy Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 11 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Osage Mills Rd., Osage Mills, 72713
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Benton County MRA
Township. Township 5
National Register reference number. 87002379 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Piercy Farmstead between 1999 and 2019, burning about 1,155 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	875 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	BUTLER CREEK
12 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2012	Smoking	23 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 April 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 March 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

14 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osage Mills, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 68 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Osage Mills	-	Portions of multiple roads were flooded and closed in and around Cave Springs.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured thunderstorm wind gusts up to 66 mph.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 64 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 64 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 63 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2020	Flash Flood	Osage Mills	-	Portions of Mill Dam Road were closed due to flooding.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 59 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 63 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (KXNA) measured 66 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 61 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS unit at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 59 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 58 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Osage Mills	-	The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 82 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Rife Farmstead	0.3 miles	1988
Council Grove Methodist Church	0.5 miles	1988
Alden House	1.2 miles	1988
Osage Mills Dam	1.4 miles	1988
Shores Warehouse	2.1 miles	1988
Osage Creek Bridge	2.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002379 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 162 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.