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S. S. P. Mills and Son Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Mills and Son Building was a historic commercial building at the northwest corner of Texarkana Avenue and Main Street in Wilton, Arkansas, between the railroad tracks and United States Route 71. It was a single-story panel brick building, built by a local landowner and merchant for his commercial activities.”

Wikipedia article S.S.P. Mills and Son Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Little River County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Texarkana Ave. and Main St., NW corner, Wilton, 71822
  • When was it listed? June 1996
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Railroad Era Resources of Southwest Arkansas MPS
  • District. District 4
  • National Register reference number. 96000631 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

62 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of S. S. P. Mills and Son Building between 1998 and 2019, burning about 597 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning13
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2004Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2015Debris and open burning16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Little River 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 S. S. P. Mills and Son Building: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wilton Pits & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Little River County

Storms near this property

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilton, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 14 hail, 7 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Flash FloodWilton$100,000Flash flood waters beginning to enter a few homes in Ashdown, Arkansas.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWilton$5,000Several trees were downed.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindWilton-A tree was blown down just west of the Wilton community.
March 2016HailWilton-Dime size hail reported just southwest of Wilton.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindWilton-A few trees and power lines were downed in the Wilton community.
February 2013HailWilton-Hail fell 2 miles east of Wilton, Arkansas.
October 2012HailWilton-Hail was reported near Wilton, Arkansas.
October 2012Thunderstorm WindWilton-Several trees downed around Wilton, Arkansas.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWilton-A tree was downed in the town of Wilton, Arkansas.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWilton-A tree was downed in the Wilton, Arkansas community.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWilton-Winds tore a roof off the Hanson Aggregates office and felled several large trees.
August 1993HailWilton-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees.
August 1993HailWilton-Several trees were downed.
October 2010HailWilton-no account filed
April 2009HailWilton-no account filed
May 2008HailWilton-no account filed
February 2005HailWilton-no account filed
October 1996HailWilton-no account filed
October 1993HailWilton-no account filed
May 1993HailWilton-no account filed
April 1993HailWilton-no account filed
October 1993HailWilton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Little River 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway Depot0.1 miles2008
Old US 71-Wilton Segement1.9 miles2004
Mills Cemetery2.2 miles2007
Old US 71-Ashdown Segment3.9 miles2013
Judge Jefferson Thomas Cowling House4.4 miles1988
Old US 71-Ashdown Segment4.4 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000631 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Little River CountyAll 20 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.