Stanley Simpson Farmstead Picking Shed

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Stanley Simpson Farmstead Picking Shed is a historic farm outbuilding in rural northern White County, Arkansas. It is located off Pond Road west of Arkansas Highway 157, north of Judsonia and the hamlet of Providence.”
Wikipedia article Stanley Simpson Farmstead Picking Shed, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Simpson, Stanley, Farmstead Picking Shed - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Co. Rd. 390 W of jct. with AR 157, Providence, 72081
When was it listed? September 1991
Category. structure
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Liberty township
National Register reference number. 91001342 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

80 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Stanley Simpson Farmstead Picking Shed between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,343 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	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
9 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	96 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WHI17887418
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	55 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WHI17514057

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Stanley Simpson Farmstead Picking Shed: 8 past producers. 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	Past Producer
Malvern	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Providence, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2009: 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
November 2009	Flood	Providence	-	Heavy rainfall at the end of October allowed the Little Red River at Judsonia to remain above flood stage into the early morning of November 1st.
October 2009	Flood	Providence	-	Heavy rainfall at the end of the month pushed the Little Red River at Judsonia above flood stage.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Providence	-	Arkansas Highway 157 near Arkansas Highway 258 was flooded.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Providence	-	Some large tree limbs were snapped off several trees.
April 2008	Hail	Providence	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Providence	-	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
Hilger, Louis N., Homestead, Livestock Barn	0.7 miles	1992
J. C. Rhew Co. Packing Shed	2.8 miles	1992
Thomas Hunt House	3.2 miles	1992
Thompson House	3.4 miles	1992
Big Four School	3.5 miles	1992
Morris Hartsell Farmstead	3.6 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001342 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.