Railroad Cottage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Railroad Cottage is a historic house at 208 North Rust Street in Gentry, Arkansas. It is a small single-story L-shaped wood-frame house with Folk Victorian styling, including a reconstructed jigsawn balustrade and turned porch posts.”
Wikipedia article Railroad Cottage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 208 N. Rust, Gentry, 72734
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. building
Township. Township 4
National Register reference number. 04001509 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Railroad Cottage between 1998 and 2018, burning about 1,230 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
3 September 1998	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	994 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	HONEY CREEK
15 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 March 2010	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 March 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 March 2011	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Railroad Cottage: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead. 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 - Zn/Pb	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

60 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gentry, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 32 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 6 flash flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 2014	Lightning	Gentry	2 hurt	Two people were struck and injured by lightning in the McDonald's parking lot.
July 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Gentry	$150,000	This tornado destroyed a double-wide modular home, damaged seven permanent homes, destroyed a metal-framed outbuilding, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and blew down power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a chicken house, damaged several homes, snapped trees, and blew down power lines.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour caused damage in Gentry. A 30 foot chunk of a metal roof was torn off an office building and a box trailer from a semi-trailer was blown on its side. Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$50,000	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Gentry	$50,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$50,000	no account filed
May 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Gentry	$25,000	A tornado severely damaged or destroyed several barns and outbuildings and snapped or uprooted a number of large trees. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 105 mph.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew shingles off of some homes. In addition, sheet metal roofs of outbuildings were blown off.
October 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated in excess of 70 miles an hour ripped off part of the roof of a church and severely damaged a barn.
May 2011	Hail	Gentry	$25,000	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew a large barn door 75 to 100 yards.
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a barn.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$3,000	Around 300 AM CDT in Gentry, winds left uprooted trees, downed power lines, and blocked roads.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power lines.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$2,000	Power lines blown down near Gentry
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs and power lines.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$1,000	Numerous trees were blown down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs and trees.
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$100	A large tree was blown down.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	$100	Several large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down small trees, and snapped numerous large tree limbs.
April 2022	Flash Flood	Gentry	-	Portions of Sleepy Hollow Road were flooded southwest of Gentry.
October 2019	Flash Flood	Gentry	-	Highway 59 was flooded at Dawn Hill Road south of Gentry.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down multiple trees.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Gentry	-	A portion of Main Street in Gentry was impassable due to high water.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	A tree was uprooted by strong thunderstorm wind.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Several trees were uprooted to the north and northwest, just north of Arkotex Road.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Gentry	-	Main Street was reported flooded near Collins Avenue.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several trees along Highway 12 west of Gentry.
January 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Gentry	-	An NWS survey team determined that a tornado caused extensive hardwood tree damage.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous large trees.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew trees down.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a few trees down.
April 2004	Flash Flood	Gentry	-	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused a road to be closed due to high water.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees.
February 2001	Flash Flood	Gentry	-	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused a road near the intersection of Highway 43 and Highway 102 to be flooded.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew large tree limbs down.
April 1994	Hail	Gentry	-	Funnel clouds were observed near Bentonville.
March 2017	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
February 2009	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
February 2009	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
October 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gentry	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed
May 1995	Tornado (F0)	Gentry	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Gentry	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Mitchell-Ward House	under 500 feet	2005
Mitchell House	0.2 miles	1988
Carpenter Building	0.2 miles	2018
Bank of Gentry	0.2 miles	1988
Carl House	0.3 miles	1988
Gentry Grand Army of the Republic Monument	1.3 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001509 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 162 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.