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Photograph of Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District encompasses a historic tourist accommodation on United States Route 65 in central northern Searcy County, Arkansas, just south of the Buffalo National River. Located behind the Silver Hill Float Service on the west side of the highway stand six stone and timber cabins, with large sandstone blocks and plank doors on the fronts, and shed roofs obscured by parapets.”

Wikipedia article Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Searcy County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. AR 65, Silver Hill, 72675
  • When was it listed? November 2000
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
  • Township. Spring township
  • National Register reference number. 00001361 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,373 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 69 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/incendiarism69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Debris and open burning24
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
16 September 2000Smokingunder an acreBuffalo National RiverDUFFER
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBuffalo National RiverSAPLING
31 July 1995Smokingunder an acreBuffalo National RiverNORTHSIDE
24 July 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresBuffalo National RiverHANGOVER BLUFF
18 June 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBuffalo National RiverBUCKET FIR
6 May 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBuffalo National RiverUNDERGROUND WF
28 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBuffalo National RiverDRIFTPILE1

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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 Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District: 1 producer. All of them 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
Buffalo River Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this property

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver Hill, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2025FloodSilver Hill-Minor river flooding was observed at St. Joe along the Buffalo River.
November 2024FloodSilver Hill-The Buffalo River at St. Joe entered minor flood stage in early November and ended up cresting in moderate flood stage of 35.44 feet on November 5 at 8:30 PM CST.
March 2003HailSilver Hill-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSilver Hill-no account filed
May 1995HailSilver Hill-no account filed
June 1995HailSilver Hill-no account filed
June 1995HailSilver Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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
Mays General Store2.2 miles1983
Benjamin Franklin Henley House5.2 miles1985
St. Joe Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot5.2 miles1993
Henley Hotel5.3 miles2011
Gates-Helm Farm5.9 miles1993
Snowball Gymnasium6.1 miles2020

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001361 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Searcy CountyAll 52 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.