Collums-Baker House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Collums-Baker House is a historic house on the east side of United States Route 65, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of Bee Branch, Arkansas. It is a wood-frame structure, with an irregular roof line and massing, set on a block foundation.”
Wikipedia article Collums-Baker House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Van Buren 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. Collums--Baker House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. US 65 E side, approximately 1/2 mi. S of town limits, Bee Branch, 72013
When was it listed? November 1992
Category. building
Township. Bradley township
National Register reference number. 92001282 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Collums-Baker House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 760 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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	13
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	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 1999	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	55 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	70 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Collums-Baker House: 2 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bee Branch, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee Branch	$10,000	Multiple trees were down and outbuildings damaged. There was shingle damage to houses and sheet metal and other debris was scattered around.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee Branch	$1,000	A flag pole and a tree were blown down by thunderstorm winds. The observer also measured 2.40 inches of rain in less than an hour.
September 2025	Hail	Bee Branch	-	Quarter-sized hail fell in the community of Bee Branch.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee Branch	-	A wind gust, estimated to be near 70 mph, tore part of a roof off a house. In addition, a construction trailer was moved 150 feet and a construction vehicle was moved 100 feet.
May 2010	Hail	Bee Branch	-	Quarter size hail was reported on Bee Branch Mountain.
November 2005	Tornado (F2)	Bee Branch	-	A strong tornado was spawned in southeastern Van Buren about 9 miles southeast of Bee Branch. The tornado was in the county a short time, and only caused some tree damage before moving into southwestern Cleburne County.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee Branch	-	Some trees were blown down.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Bee Branch	-	A weak tornado briefly touched down to the southwest of Bee Branch. The tornado caused minimal damage with a hay barn destroyed and a few trees knocked down. The tornado dissipated about one-half mile southwest of Bee Branch.
January 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee Branch	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a barn near Bee Branch.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee Branch	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee Branch	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee Branch	-	Some power lines were blown down.
March 2019	Hail	Bee Branch	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Bee Branch	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Bee Branch	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Bee Branch	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Bee Branch	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Bee Branch	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Bee Branch	-	no account filed
December 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee Branch	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Bee Branch	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Art Scanlan House	0.4 miles	1999
South Side High School Sign	1.7 miles	2023
Titan II ICBM Launch Complex 374-7 Site	2.1 miles	2000
Damascus CCC Camp, Co. No. 3781 Historic District	5.0 miles	2002
Damascus Gymnasium	5.4 miles	1992
Carl and Esther Lee House	5.4 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001282 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Van Buren County	All 15 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.