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Parker House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Parker House is a historic house on United States Route 425, two miles south of Star City, Arkansas. The two-story house was built in 1927 by Robert Preston Parker, and it exhibits International style with Mediterranean elements, and extremely unusual styling for a rural setting in southeastern Arkansas.”

Wikipedia article Parker House (Star City, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. HC 64 Box 5, Star City, 71667
  • When was it listed? June 2000
  • Category. building
  • Township. Cane Creek township
  • Architectural style. International Style
  • National Register reference number. 00000607 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

66 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Parker House between 2001 and 2019, burning about 311 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Natural23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Debris and open burning11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Parker House: 27 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. 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
Fowler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hb RobertsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lincoln County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rupe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Star City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

60 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Star City, the town this property stands in, in 73 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 32 hail, 31 thunderstorm wind, 10 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 FloodStar City$100,000Flooding occurred across the county.
March 1997Flash FloodStar City$100,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindStar City$50,000Some trees were blown down and several windows were broken out of buildings.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindStar City$25,000Trees and signs were blown down in Star City.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindStar City$15,000Trees were blown down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindStar City$15,000Trees were down across the county.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindStar City$10,000Some trees were blown down.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindStar City$5,000A tree was knocked down and partially fell on a home.
July 2010Flash FloodStar City$1,000U.S. Highway 425 was covered by water.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindStar City$500Thunderstorm winds blew a large tree down across Highway 114.
April 2025HailStar City-Quarter-sized hail fell in Star City.
April 2025HailStar City-Quarter-sized hail fell in the town of Star City and tin was blown off of the roof in downtown Star City.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindStar City-Multiple trees down near Star City with damage to the roof panels of a few chicken houses at the same location.
January 2023Flash FloodStar City-Numerous roads were flooded, and water was deep and flowing across several roads near Star City.
June 2023HailStar City-Softball sized hail fell in Star City.
June 2023HailStar City-Hen egg sized hail fell across Star City.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindStar City-Trees were down on Avalon Rd. just north of Star City.
June 2021Flash FloodStar City-The Lincoln County sheriff's office observed substantial water over several local roads in Star City.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindStar City-Multiple tree limbs were blown down in Star City.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindStar City-Multiple trees and power lines were down in Star City.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStar City-A tree was down on Avalon Rd. 2 miles north of Star City.
February 2018Flash FloodStar City-Several roads in the county had high water over them.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindStar City-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindStar City-Several trees down in town. One building on the square lost half the roof. Power lines were down.
March 2007Flash FloodStar City-Water was over Arkansas Highway 11 East.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindStar City-Several power lines were blown down near a local grocery store.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindStar City-Several trees were blown down.
August 2006Flash FloodStar City-Heavy rains caused some localized flash flooding to occur just west of Star City. High water covered the roadway at the intersection of State Highway 212 and County Road 12.
August 2003HailStar City-Penny sized hail fell at Cane Creek State Park.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindStar City-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and power lines. Some minor roof damage also occurred to the local high school in Star City.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindStar City-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs and power lines.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindStar City-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindStar City-Several trees were blown down along U.S. Highway 425, 10 miles south of Star City.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindStar City-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindStar City-Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindStar City-Thunderstorm winds caused some roof damage to several buildings.
November 2022HailStar City-no account filed
April 2015HailStar City-no account filed
April 2011HailStar City-no account filed
June 2011HailStar City-no account filed
June 2011HailStar City-no account filed
April 2011HailStar City-no account filed
May 2010HailStar City-no account filed
February 2009HailStar City-no account filed
April 2006HailStar City-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindStar City-no account filed
May 2005HailStar City-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindStar City-no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodStar City-no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodStar City-no account filed
May 2003HailStar City-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindStar City-no account filed
May 2003HailStar City-no account filed
May 2003HailStar City-no account filed
June 2003HailStar City-no account filed
May 2002HailStar City-no account filed
July 2002HailStar City-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindStar City-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindStar City-no account filed
January 1999HailStar City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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

5 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
Crow House1.5 miles1976
Oscar Crow House1.7 miles1992
Lincoln County Courthouse1.7 miles1994
Star City Confederate Memorial1.9 miles1996
Star City Commercial Historic District1.9 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000607 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln CountyAll 10 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.