Dr. John William Morris Clinic

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“John William Morris Clinic is a historic professional office building at 118 West Main Street in McCrory, Arkansas. It is a single-story stone and masonry structure with a front-facing gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Dr. John William Morris Clinic, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Woodruff County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Morris, Dr. John William, Clinic - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 118 W. Main St., McCrory, 72101
When was it listed? October 2009
Category. building
Township. Cotton Plant township
National Register reference number. 09000801 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Dr. John William Morris Clinic between 1992 and 2018, burning about 236 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
Smoking	7
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 1999	Smoking	29 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	COLE
12 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2004	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 March 2018	Arson/incendiarism	2.7 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	POSSUM CREEK
5 March 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	HWY260#1

Every fire recorded in Woodruff County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCrory, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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 1995	Hail	McCrory	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodruff 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

3 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
McCrory Waterworks	under 500 feet	2007
McCrory Commercial Historic District	0.1 miles	2010
Revel General Store	5.0 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000801 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Woodruff County	All 17 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.
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.