Joe Brown House and Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Joe Brown House and Farmstead is a historic property in rural White County, Arkansas. It is located about one mile south of the end of County Road 529, and about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the hamlet of Little Red as the crow flies.”
Wikipedia article Joe Brown House and Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 sitess, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Brown, Joe, House and Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Rd. 529 NW of Little Red, Little Red, 72121
When was it listed? September 1991
Category. building
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Big Creek township
National Register reference number. 91001338 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

69 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Joe Brown House and Farmstead between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,728 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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
Debris and open burning	24
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	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
8 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	55 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Joe Brown House and Farmstead: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working 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
Leggett House	1.9 miles	1992
Morris Hartsell Farmstead	3.8 miles	1991
Livestock and Equipment Barn, Glenn Homestead	5.4 miles	1992
Morris House	5.5 miles	1978
Blunt House Livestock Barn	5.6 miles	1992
Sam Ray House	6.2 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001338 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.