R.A. Pickens II House

Built in 1940 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“Pickens II House is a historic house at 1 Pickens Place in Pickens, Desha County, Arkansas. It is a brick structure, with a side gable roof that projects over the front facade to form a porch supported by square wooden columns with Doric elements.”
Wikipedia article R.A. Pickens II House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Desha County · listed in 2019 · category: Building · built in 1940, Colonial Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Pickens, R.A., II, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1 Pickens Pl., Pickens, 71662
When was it listed? May 2019
Category. building
Township. Walnut Lake township
When was it built? 1940
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 100003992 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of R.A. Pickens II House between 1998 and 2003, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 March 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 January 1998	Recreation and ceremony	5.6 acres	Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge	OAKWOOD

Every fire recorded in Desha County

Storms near this property

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pickens, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2021: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2021	Flash Flood	Pickens	$50,000	Track ballast was completely washed away beneath railroad tracks in several locations near U.S. Hwy. 65.
June 2021	Flash Flood	Pickens	-	The wall of an irrigation canal was breached and water from the canal flooded surrounding farmland.

Every storm recorded in Desha 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dante House	2.7 miles	2020
Merchants & Farmers Bank	3.1 miles	1982
McKennon-Shea House	3.1 miles	1993
Dr. J. D. Watts House	3.2 miles	1994
Dumas Commercial Historic District	3.2 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003992 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Desha County	All 26 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.