Mason House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Mason House was a historic house on West Main Street in Bradford, Arkansas. It was a single story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gabled roof, weatherboard siding, and a concrete foundation.”
Wikipedia article Mason House (Bradford, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White 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 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. W. Main St. W of jct. with Walnut St., Bradford, 72020
When was it listed? July 1992
Category. building
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Liberty township
National Register reference number. 91001319 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

56 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Mason House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,890 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
9 September 2014	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	JAC3467719
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White 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 Mason House: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Reeves Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Viking Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

45 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bradford, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 16 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 flood, 3 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
March 2008	Flood	Bradford	$500,000	While minor river flooding was ongoing at the beginning of the month, the White River at the Augusta gage rose to highest levels since completion of the large flood control reservoirs in the mid twentieth century. Along the White River, about a dozen homes and recreational cabins flooded near Green Tom Lake and along the riverbank at U.S. Highway 64. Numerous county roads in the floodplain were inundated and some winter wheat was lost. The flooding in this reach of the White River continued into April.
April 2008	Flood	Bradford	$150,000	Major flooding levels were repeated in April at the Augusta gage on the White River. Some homes and cabins were again flooded along U.S. Highway 64. The river crested slightly lower at Augusta in April than the crest in March, so damages were limited to whatever repairs were made between crests. This was the third highest crest since the flood control reservoirs were completed in the mid-twentieth century.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$50,000	Trees were blown down in the area around Bradford. One of the trees landed on a house.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$30,000	Tin was peeled off barns, a fence was blown down, and numerous trees were blown down.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$20,000	Trees were blown down.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$15,000	The roof was blown off a tractor shed, part of the roof was taken off a shop building, and the roof of a house was damaged. A number of large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$10,000	Tin was blown off a barn.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$10,000	Power lines were down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$7,000	A power pole was broken and power lines were blown down.
June 2011	Flood	Bradford	$5,000	High levels on the White River caused areal flooding in White County throughout June and on into July.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	$1,000	A tree was down on Steed Road.
July 2011	Flood	Bradford	$1,000	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Bradford	-	Hail was estimated to be penny-sized near Bradford.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	-	The fire department reported an estimated 60 mph gust.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Bradford	-	Numerous streets were flooded in the city of Bradford.
September 2009	Flood	Bradford	-	High stages along the White River caused crop losses in the floodplain.
May 2008	Flood	Bradford	-	Heavy rainfall in March and April caused a prolonged high water event along the lower White River. Along the White County side of the floodplain within the Augusta reach of the river, high water delayed planting of cropland in the floodplain. The river did not recede below flood stage in this reach of the river until July, with the primary impact being the delayed planting of corn and rice, causing many farmers to switch to soybeans, and preventing the planting of many hundreds of acres that were either inundated or isolated by the high river stages. Some of this cropland, which lies below the flood stage, remained flooded into the summer months.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	-	Trees and many large limbs were down.
July 2008	Flood	Bradford	-	Reservoir releases from the upstream Corps of Engineers' lakes prolonged the high water event and kept the stage at Augusta above flood stage into the middle of the month. While the stage remained slightly above flood stage, farmers planted down to the water's edge. A brief period of higher stages during the week after the 4th of July holiday put water over several hundred acres of newly sprouted soybeans and killed the tender plants. Additional damages were noted.
June 2008	Flood	Bradford	-	Flood control releases from Bull Shoals and Norfork Dams in the upper White River basin caused minor flooding along the lower White River in the Augusta reach of the river. The river remained above flood stage throughout the month of June. Primary impact was to the row crop agricultural community with portions of the Taylor Bay bottoms flooded or isolated by high water. Dollar damages were reported in May totals.
September 2008	Flood	Bradford	-	Heavy rainfall from Tropical Depression Gustav created minor flooding along the White River. Approximately 2000 acres of soybeans were flooded and destroyed in the Augusta vicinity on the White County side of the river.
September 2007	Flash Flood	Bradford	-	Several county roads were flooded around Bradford.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	-	Numerous trees and power lines were downed. Five houses sustained damage due to fallen trees.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
May 2003	Tornado (F2)	Bradford	-	A strong tornado was spawned near Bradford and moved to the northeast. The tornado downed a number of trees which fell on residences in and near town. Some of the trees were quite old, and were likely at least 100 years old. The tornado tracked to about 1 mile north-northwest of town before heading into Jackson County.
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Bradford	-	A weak tornado touched down over northeast White County about 1 mile east of Bradford. The tornado downed a number of trees and power poles. Several homes sustained roof damage, mainly from falling trees. The tornado continued to track northeastward in Jackson County.
March 1998	Hail	Bradford	-	Golfball size hail covered the ground.
April 2018	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
April 2018	Funnel Cloud	Bradford	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
May 2003	Flash Flood	Bradford	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Bradford	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bradford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Dr. Lovell House	0.2 miles	1992
Marshall Hickmon Homestead	0.3 miles	1992
U. L. Hickmon Hardware Store	0.3 miles	1991
Bradford City Hall-Byers Masonic Lodge	0.3 miles	1999
Dr. Frizell House	0.3 miles	1992
Williams, Arthur, Homestead, Feed Storage Shed	0.4 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001319 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White County	All 203 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.