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One of 29 National Register listings published here for Hempstead County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Grandison D. Royston House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Royston, Grandison D., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Alexander St., SW of Columbus St., Washington, 71862
- When was it listed? June 1971
- Category. building
- Township. Saline township
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 71000124 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
39 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Grandison D. Royston House between 1998 and 2017, burning about 508 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grandison D. Royston House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saratoga Chalk Mine & Mill | Limestone, Dimension | Producer |
Storms near this property
22 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Washington, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Washington | $30,000 | Large trees uprooted and pushed over. Several large trees fell on homes and residences in Washington. Some structural and roof damage occurred to several homes and businesses. Otherwise this tornado traversed mostly unpopulated wooded regions. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washington | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Washington | $500 | Hail up to golf ball-size broke out two car windshields. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washington | $500 | Several trees were blown down. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Washington | - | Ping pong ball size hail reported just north of Washington. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washington | - | Numerous large limbs were downed in the historic Washington State Park. A large pine tree was also blown down in the Pioneer Cemetery. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Washington | - | Nickel size hail was reported just north of the Washington community. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washington | - | Trees were downed between the Washington and Oakhaven communities. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Washington | - | Several roads were closed across the county as a result of excessive heavy rainfall. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Washington | - | Several roads throughout the county remain closed from excessive heavy rainfall. |
| January 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washington | - | Trees were downed. |
| November 2005 | Hail | Washington | - | Hail fell in Bingen. |
| February 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Washington | - | Trees uprooted along County Road 4. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Washington | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Washington | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| January 2006 | Hail | Washington | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Washington | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Washington | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Washington | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Washington | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Washington | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Washington | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Washington Confederate Monument | 5.1 miles | 1996 |
| Saint Paul Methodist Church Cemetery. Historic Section | 5.5 miles | 2024 | |
 | Confederate State Capitol | 5.8 miles | 1972 |
 | Goodlett Gin | 5.8 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 71000124 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Hempstead County | All 29 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.