Harris House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Harris House is a historic house in rural southeastern Pulaski County, Arkansas. Built in 1856, it is one of the oldest houses in central Arkansas.”
Wikipedia article Harris House (Hensley, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 383 National Register listings published here for Pulaski 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. SE of Hensley off AR 365, Hensley, 72065
When was it listed? January 1976
Category. building
Township. Big Rock township
National Register reference number. 76000451 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Harris House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 795 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this property

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hensley, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 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
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hensley	$15,000	A tree fell onto a truck on Arkansas 365. There were no injuries.
May 2024	Hail	Hensley	-	Quarter-sized hail fell in the town of Hensley.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Hensley	-	Water was over the roadway at the intersection of Hensley Rd. and Interstate 530.
April 2016	Flash Flood	Hensley	-	Water was flowing over a part of Highway 365 in Hensley.
April 2011	Funnel Cloud	Hensley	-	Hensley firefighters reported a funnel cloud descending toward the ground.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hensley	-	A number of trees were blown down.
April 2011	Funnel Cloud	Hensley	-	no account filed
February 1998	Hail	Hensley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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

1 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
	Land's End Plantation	7.8 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000451 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski County	All 383 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.