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Art Scanlan House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Art Scanlan House is a historic house on Record Loop, just west of United States Route 65 in Bee Branch, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gable-on-hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of concrete and fieldstone.”

Wikipedia article Art Scanlan House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Van Buren County · listed in 1999 · 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. Scanlan, Art, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Rt.1, W. of US 65, Bee Branch, 72013
  • When was it listed? November 1999
  • Category. building
  • Township. Bradley township
  • National Register reference number. 99001355 - 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 Art Scanlan House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 762 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/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2

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
9 September 1999Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Arson/incendiarism70 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Art Scanlan House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkClayPast 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017Thunderstorm WindBee Branch$10,000Multiple trees were down and outbuildings damaged. There was shingle damage to houses and sheet metal and other debris was scattered around.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBee Branch$1,000A 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 2025HailBee Branch-Quarter-sized hail fell in the community of Bee Branch.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindBee 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 2010HailBee Branch-Quarter size hail was reported on Bee Branch Mountain.
November 2005Tornado (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 2003Thunderstorm WindBee Branch-Some trees were blown down.
May 2003Tornado (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 2002Thunderstorm WindBee Branch-Thunderstorm winds blew down a barn near Bee Branch.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBee Branch-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindBee Branch-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindBee Branch-Some power lines were blown down.
March 2019HailBee Branch-no account filed
April 2008HailBee Branch-no account filed
April 2006HailBee Branch-no account filed
November 2005HailBee Branch-no account filed
May 2003HailBee Branch-no account filed
May 2000HailBee Branch-no account filed
May 1996HailBee Branch-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindBee Branch-no account filed
April 1995HailBee 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Collums-Baker House0.4 miles1992
South Side High School Sign2.1 miles2023
Titan II ICBM Launch Complex 374-7 Site2.3 miles2000
Damascus CCC Camp, Co. No. 3781 Historic District5.2 miles2002
Melvin Chrisco House5.6 miles2005
Damascus Gymnasium5.6 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001355 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Van Buren CountyAll 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.