W. H. Allen House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Allen House is a historic house in rural Columbia County, Arkansas. It is a single-story house whose main block is a four-room dogtrot house built in 1873 by one of the area's first American settlers, Walter Howard Allen.”
Wikipedia article W. H. Allen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1976 · 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. Allen, W. H., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NW of Spotville off AR 98, Spotville, 71753
When was it listed? October 1976
Category. building
Township. Village township
National Register reference number. 76000395 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

53 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of W. H. Allen House between 1997 and 2019, burning about 682 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	12
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	24 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of W. H. Allen House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spotville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Spotville	-	Three pine trees and one large oak tree were downed near Highway 82 in the Marysville community near the Union/Columbia County line.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	William H. Smith House	5.3 miles	1992
	Harvey C. Couch School	7.7 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000395 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 24 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.