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Capps House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Capps House is a historic house in rural Monroe County, Arkansas. It is located in the southern part of the county, just east of Arkansas Highway 17 on the north side of County Road 48.”

Wikipedia article Capps House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 48 E of jct. with SR 17, Lawrenceville, 72069
  • When was it listed? June 1990
  • Category. building
  • Township. Jackson township
  • National Register reference number. 90000877 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Capps House between 2000 and 2014, burning about 429 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 2004Debris and open burning62 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Debris and open burning37 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMON3670550
27 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 October 2000Debris and open burning96 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 October 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 October 2000Debris and open burning22 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 October 2000Debris and open burning157 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 October 2004Arson/incendiarism50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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

4 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
Abramson House7.3 miles1995
James A. Walls House7.4 miles1980
Lair House7.4 miles1998
Holly Grove Historic District7.6 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000877 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe CountyAll 43 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.