May Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The May Farmstead is a historic farm property in rural eastern Newton County, Arkansas. It is located overlooking Cave Creek, off County Road 256 east of Bens Branch Church.”
Wikipedia article May Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 3 mi. NE of Bass on Cave Cr., Bass, 72655
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. building
Township. Polk township
National Register reference number. 99001470 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of May Farmstead between 1994 and 2020, burning about 9,654 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 31 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	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	21
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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
31 August 1998	Smoking	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ICELEDO
7 June 1997	Arson/incendiarism	120 acres	Buffalo National River	FLAT ROCK
22 June 2013	Fireworks	under an acre	Buffalo National River	CARVER GUARDRAIL
21 June 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 June 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Buffalo National River	CAVE CREEK CHUTE
19 June 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Newton 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 May Farmstead: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, 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
Ragged Breeches	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Z Hudson	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Confederate	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Turkey Fat Mine	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Belle of Wichita Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Little Buffalo River	Zinc	Past Producer
Lost Mountain Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Upper Cave Creek	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bass, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2013	Heavy Rain	Bass	-	Rainfall totaled 2.75 inches in 3 hours.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bass	-	Thunderstorm winds snapped off the tops of several trees. One tree fell onto a nearby house, causing some minor roof damage.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bass	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees and damaged a few houses.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001470 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 16 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.