Champ Grubbs House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Champ Grubbs House is a historic antebellum dog trot log cabin in rural Drew County, Arkansas. It is located on Ozment Bluff Road, west of Arkansas Highway 172 and southwest of the county seat of Monticello.”
Wikipedia article Champ Grubbs House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Drew 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. Grubbs, Champ, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. AR 172 W of New Hope, New Hope, 71675
When was it listed? November 1992
Category. building
Township. Crook township
National Register reference number. 92001619 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

104 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Champ Grubbs House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,185 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	51
Arson/incendiarism	25
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	4
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
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Drew 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 Champ Grubbs House: 3 past producers. None of them 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
O'Neal Bros.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Drew County

Storms near this property

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	New Hope	$25,000	Trees and power lines were blown down, blocking some county roads.

Every storm recorded in Drew 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Veasey-DeArmond House	4.3 miles	1989
	Saline Cemetery	7.7 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001619 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Drew County	All 27 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.