BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
West Log House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. NE of Salem, Salem, 75933
- When was it listed? December 1979
- Category. building
- Census division. Call
- National Register reference number. 79003000 - 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
157 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of West Log House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,640 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 66 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 | 66 |
| Debris and open burning | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 85 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 63 |
| 20 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 15 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4102 GRASS FIRE |
| 1 September 2000 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 611 |
| 4 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 283 |
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 79003000 in Record Group 79. |
| Newton County | All 6 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.