Taylor Log House and Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Taylor Log House and Site is a historic plantation site on Arkansas Highway 138 in rural Drew County, Arkansas, near the town of Winchester. Included on the plantation site is the best-preserved dog trot house in Arkansas's Lower Delta region.”
Wikipedia article Taylor Log House and Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Drew County · listed in 1995 · 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.
Address. AR 138 W of Winchester, Winchester, 71670
When was it listed? October 1995
Category. building
Township. Live Oak township
National Register reference number. 95001168 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

32 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Taylor Log House and Site between 2001 and 2018, burning about 154 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	1
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
3 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2006	Natural	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 May 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 April 2003	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Storms near this property

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winchester, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Winchester	-	The Murphy Store at U.S. Highway 65 and Arkansas Highway 138 received major roof damage.

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

4 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
Selma Methodist Church	5.1 miles	1972
Selma Rosenwald School	6.6 miles	2006
Bank of Tillar	6.9 miles	2022
Tillar, Frank, Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South	6.9 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001168 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.
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.