BlockFrom the record
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Waddle House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
The listing
- Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. S. Erwin, Success, 72470
- When was it listed? March 1977
- Category. building
- Township. Brown-Carpenter township
- National Register reference number. 77000246 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
3 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Waddle House between 1993 and 2011, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 March 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 March 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Waddle House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B.L. Williams Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| York Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
13 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Success, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Flood | Success | $1,000,000 | The Current River experienced a record flood upstream at Doniphan, MO in early May. The water moved downstream and caused the evacuation of Success, AR on May 1st. Highways 328 and 211 were flooded along with thousands of acres of farmland. The swiftness of the water deposited large amounts of sand and gravel across much of the farmland. Highway 67 south of Corning was flooded. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Success | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Success | $5,000 | Some trees were blown down. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Success | $5,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Success | - | Approximately golf ball (1.75) sized hail was reported near Success, AR. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Success | - | Trees down across Success. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Success | - | Straight line winds knocked down several trees and power lines across Western Clay County. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Success | - | Straight line winds damaged a roof of a barn and a home near Success. |
| March 2008 | Flash Flood | Success | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding in northwest Clay County. Highway 211 from Old Highway 67 to the Missouri state line was closed due to flooding. Numerous county roads were flooded in the Success area. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Success | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Success | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Success | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Success | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Baynham House | 0.1 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 77000246 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Clay County | All 19 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.