Thomas Jefferson Hale General Merchandise Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Thomas Jefferson Hale General Merchandise Store is a historic commercial building in rural south-central White County, Arkansas. It is located south of Searcy, at the southwest corner of the junction of County Roads 62 and 433, known locally as Vinity Corner.”
Wikipedia article Thomas Jefferson Hale General Merchandise Store, 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hale, Thomas Jefferson, General Merchandise Store - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Jct of Co. Rds. 62 and 433, Vinity Corner, 72143
When was it listed? July 1992
Category. building
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Gum Springs township
National Register reference number. 91001358 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Jefferson Hale General Merchandise Store between 1998 and 2020, burning about 428 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2006	Debris and open burning	58 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White County

Storms near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vinity Corner, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2018: 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
February 2018	Flash Flood	Vinity Corner	-	Bayou Rd. was closed due to high water.

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
Emmett McDonald House	3.8 miles	1992
Childers Farmstead	4.8 miles	1992
Booth-Weir House	4.9 miles	1991
Caldwell House	5.0 miles	1991
McRae Jail	5.0 miles	1992
Griffithville School	6.1 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001358 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.
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.