Buford-Carty Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Buford-Carty Farmstead, also known as Carty Log Cabin and Thomas Buford Homestead, is a historic home and farm located near Black, Reynolds County, Missouri. The original farmhouse was built in 1847, and is a 1 1/2 story, side-gabled, single-pen hewn log dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Buford-Carty Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Reynolds County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Buford--Carty Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 0.75 mi. S of Hwy J on Cty Rd. 814, Black, 63625
When was it listed? June 2004
Category. building
Township. Black River township
National Register reference number. 04000603 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Buford-Carty Farmstead between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,835 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
27 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	67 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	CARTY
4 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	93 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	LOW GAP
13 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mark Twain National Forest	SUTTON
9 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	228 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	829
7 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	9.6 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	HAWKINS HILL
3 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,146 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	CARTY
17 May 1997	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Reynolds County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Buford-Carty Farmstead: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Copper. 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
Unknown Copper	Copper	Past Producer
Unknown Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Reynolds County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 4 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2008	Flash Flood	Black	$5,000	Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils. This caused some flash flooding, especially over the eastern sections of the county. Numerous roads were closed due to flooding including Highway N and Highway 49 about 3 miles southeast of the intersection with Highway 21. Also, in Centerville a creek overflowed out of its banks causing water to rise on several roads in town near the creek and affect several buildings in town.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Black	-	Several trees up to a foot in diameter were blown over onto Highway J between Black and Oates. Several small pine trees were ripped out of the ground as well.
May 2002	Hail	Black	-	The County Sheriff reported 1 inch hail.
March 2020	Hail	Black	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Black	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Black	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Black	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reynolds 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 04000603 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Reynolds County	All 2 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.