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Rife Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Rife Farmstead is a historic farm property in rural Benton County, Arkansas. Located on the west side of County Road 47 about 1.25 miles (2.01 km) north of its junction with Arkansas Highway 264, it consists of a single-story Bungalow-style stone house with a front-gable roof, and a side gable projecting portico.”

Wikipedia article Rife 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 3 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
  • Architectural style. bungalow
  • National Register reference number. 87002380 - 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 Rife 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism875 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBUTLER CREEK
12 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2012Smoking23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 March 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 68 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2025Flash FloodOsage Mills-Portions of multiple roads were flooded and closed in and around Cave Springs.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured thunderstorm wind gusts up to 66 mph.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 64 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 64 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 63 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2020Flash FloodOsage Mills-Portions of Mill Dam Road were closed due to flooding.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 59 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 63 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (KXNA) measured 66 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 61 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS unit at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 59 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 58 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindOsage 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Piercy Farmstead0.3 miles1988
Council Grove Methodist Church0.8 miles1988
Alden House1.5 miles1988
Osage Mills Dam1.7 miles1988
Shores Warehouse2.0 miles1988
Osage Creek Bridge2.1 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87002380 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton CountyAll 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.