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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Desha County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Dante House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 501 Court St., Dumas, 71639
- When was it listed? January 2020
- Category. building
- Township. Randolph township
- National Register reference number. 100004905 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dante 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 |
Storms near this property
39 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dumas, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2007 | Tornado (EF3) | Dumas | 28 hurt, $45,000,000 | The tornado moved out of Lincoln County and into Desha County about 6 miles southwest of Dumas. The tornado continued to track northeastward and moved across the southeast portion of the city of Dumas and produced significant damage. In Dumas, 25 businesses were destroyed, along with 19 homes. More than 65 additional homes sustained minor to moderate damage. Six mobile homes were destroyed, along with an athletic park. A community building sustained major damage, as well as a 20-unit assisted living center. An electrical substation was destroyed, leaving the area without power for several days. Numerous trees and power lines were also blown down. Farther to the northeast, in the community of Back Gate, 11 mobile homes were destroyed and 12 sustained minor damage. One house was destroyed, along with three that were damaged. The tornado eventually dissipated 4 miles northeast of Pendleton. Altogether, 28 people in the county were injured. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Dumas | $100,000 | Widespread flash flooding across the city was reported with water in several homes and numerous street flooded. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Dumas | $100,000 | The Dumas police chief reported all streets in Dumas have standing water on them. Some buildings are still inundated. People keep driving around barricaded roads and getting stuck. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged some roofs and knocked down several trees. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | $20,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down, and the steeple was blown off a church. |
| October 2010 | Lightning | Dumas | $15,000 | Lightning knocked out 28 phones at the Delta Memorial Hospital in Dumas. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | $5,000 | Some large tree limbs were blown down. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Trees were blown down in the vicinity of Dumas. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Trees were down on Belmont St. near the community center. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Dumas | - | Widespread flash flooding was noted over northern portions of Desha County. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | A tree was blown down in Dumas. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Dumas | - | Arkansas DOT reported Highway 159 from MM 0.38 to MM 2.5 was blocked due to high water. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Dumas | - | Water was covering roadways in Dumas. |
| September 2013 | Heavy Rain | Dumas | - | Rainfall amounts included 4.42 inches at Rohwer, 3.83 inches at Kelso, 3.76 inches at Lock #2 on the Arkansas River, and 3.41 inches at Montgomery Point. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Dumas | - | A brief, landspout-type tornado occurred in a soybean field. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | The covered entryway was blown off the front of a church on North College Street. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | A pickup truck pulling a camper trailer was overturned. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house and knocked out some windows at a shopping center. |
| December 2001 | Flash Flood | Dumas | - | Heavy rains caused flash flooding in Dumas. Numerous streets were under water for several hours. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and damaged the roofs of a few buildings. |
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged several roofs and destroyed a shed. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Flash Flood | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Flash Flood | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dumas | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Dumas | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Merchants & Farmers Bank | 0.4 miles | 1982 |
 | McKennon-Shea House | 0.5 miles | 1993 |
 | Dr. J. D. Watts House | 0.6 miles | 1994 |
| Dumas Commercial Historic District | 0.6 miles | 2007 | |
| R.A. Pickens II House | 2.7 miles | 2019 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004905 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.