Loy Kirksey House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Loy Kirksey House is a historic house in rural Clark County, Arkansas. It is located on the south side of Still Creek Road east of the hamlet of Fendley.”
Wikipedia article Loy Kirksey House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Kirksey, Loy, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Rd. 59 W of De Gray Lake, Fendley, 71921
When was it listed? February 1992
Category. building
Township. Caddo township
National Register reference number. 91000586 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

99 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Loy Kirksey House between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,430 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 49 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/incendiarism	49
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	140 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	SKYLINE
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	CLA23065798
30 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	502 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	CLA22776343
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Loy Kirksey House: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unk	Clay	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fendley, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Fendley	$1,000	A tree was blown down near Arkansas 8.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Fendley	-	Winds were estimated at 60 mph between Amity and Alpine.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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 91000586 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark County	All 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.
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.