Bonds House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Bonds House is a historic farmstead complex in rural southwestern Stone County, Arkansas. It is located southwest of Fox, northeast of the junction of county roads 2 and 4.”
Wikipedia article Bonds House (Fox, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rd. 2 E of Meadow Cr., Fox, 72051
When was it listed? February 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Stone County MRA
District. District 4
National Register reference number. 91000691 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

93 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Bonds House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,390 acres in total. None started naturally. 42 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	42
Debris and open burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	67 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fox, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 5 deaths and 5 injuries. 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
April 1996	Tornado (F4)	Fox	5 killed, 5 hurt, $2,500,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox	$100,000	Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a chicken house at Fox.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox	-	A report from a truck driver driving along Hwy. 263 through Fox witnessed trees being blown down along the highway in the town of Fox.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox	-	Trees were reported down.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
April 2023	Hail	Fox	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Fox	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Fox	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Fox	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fox	-	no account filed
October 1995	Hail	Fox	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Joe Guffey House	5.1 miles	1985
Wesley Copeland House	6.0 miles	1985
Turkey Creek School	6.4 miles	1985
Jim Morris Barn	7.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000691 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stone County	All 58 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.