Dearing House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Dearing House is a historic house on the west side of Arkansas Highway 122, between 7th and 8th Streets, in Newark, Arkansas. It is a wood-frame structure, with an L-shaped cross-gable configuration, and clapboard siding.”
Wikipedia article Dearing House (Newark, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Independence County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. AR 122, Newark, 72562
When was it listed? May 1976
Category. building
Township. Big Bottom-Wycough-Logan township
National Register reference number. 76000419 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

29 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Dearing House between 1999 and 2016, burning about 473 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 June 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 2012	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Dearing House: 3 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
River Sand & Gravel Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk Gravel Pits 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this property

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newark, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 14 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 4 tornado, 1 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
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	$75,000	A mobile home was destroyed when a large oak tree fell on it. An equipment shed was destroyed, causing damage to the farm equipment stored inside it.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	$5,000	Multiple trees were blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	-	Numerous trees were reported blown down in Newark.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees at Newark.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	-	Trees down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
December 2002	Tornado (F0)	Newark	-	A weak tornado touched down briefly in eastern Independence County. The tornado caused minimal damage, with just a few trees snapped off.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines around Newark.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees around Newark.
May 2000	Tornado (F0)	Newark	-	A weak tornado affected areas near Newark in Independence County. The tornado ripped the roof off of a mobile home and blew out a few windows. A house nearby also had some windows blown out. A large tree fell on another house, but caused only minor damage to the roof. A few trees and power lines were blown down, and some roof shingles were removed from a couple of homes.
June 1994	Hail	Newark	-	Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off several barns.
June 2013	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
December 2012	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
December 2012	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
March 2010	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
July 2004	Flash Flood	Newark	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
January 1999	Tornado (F2)	Newark	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Newark	-	no account filed
July 1996	Tornado (F0)	Newark	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	-	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Newark	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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

6 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
Akron Cemetery	2.7 miles	2002
Big Botton Slough Bridge	3.0 miles	2004
Hulsey Bend School	4.8 miles	1999
Hankins' Store	5.0 miles	2014
Miller Creek Bridge	5.5 miles	2010
Cedar Creek Bridge	7.0 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000419 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Independence County	All 43 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.