Dr. Robert George Williams House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Robert George Williams House is a historic house at the junction of Arkansas Highway 8 and Arkansas Highway 209 in Parkdale, Arkansas. Robert George Williams, a prominent medical doctor and businessman in Ashley County, and is one of the most elaborately decorated houses in Parkdale.”
Wikipedia article Dr. Robert George Williams House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Ashley County · listed in 1984 · 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. Williams, Dr. Robert George, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. AR 8 and 209, Parkdale, 71661
When was it listed? October 1984
Category. building
Township. De Bastrop township
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 84000002 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Robert George Williams House between 1992 and 2015, burning about 163 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
1 September 2011	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Overflow National Wildlife Refuge	FARM FIRE #2
31 August 2011	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Overflow National Wildlife Refuge	FARM FIRE #1
10 August 2015	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Overflow National Wildlife Refuge	ARFSR-FY15-WF-OVERFLOW FOOTE FIRE
1 August 2011	Natural	21 acres	Overflow National Wildlife Refuge	BEAVER KILL
20 May 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 December 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 November 2008	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 November 1992	Arson/incendiarism	54 acres	Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge	OVO

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this property

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkdale, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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
July 2015	Flash Flood	Parkdale	$20,000	Heavy rain caused several roads to flood between Portland and Wilmot. Some homes flooded as well.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkdale	$15,000	A couple of power poles were broken along US Highway 165 just north of Parkdale.
March 2000	Hail	Parkdale	$15,000	A few homes and automobiles were damaged.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkdale	$10,000	Power lines were reported down.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkdale	$10,000	Power lines were blown down in Parkdale and in a couple other spots around the county.
September 2011	Flash Flood	Parkdale	$10,000	Several roads were under water across southeast Ashley County. Radar estimated 4 to 6 inches of rain fell across this area.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkdale	$5,000	Trees were blown down along Arkansas Highway 8 in Parkdale.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkdale	$4,000	A few trees and large limbs were blown down on power lines.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkdale	$3,000	Two trees were blown down between Parkdale and Wilmot.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Parkdale	$3,000	Heavy rain brought some street flooding in Parkdale.
April 2013	Hail	Parkdale	-	Quarter size hail fell along US Highway 165.
October 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkdale	-	A couple trees were blown down on Highway 8 between Hamburg and Parkdale.
April 1999	Hail	Parkdale	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Parkdale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashley 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

3 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
Dr. M. C. Hawkins House	under 500 feet	1996
Parkdale Methodist Church	0.1 miles	2007
Parkdale Baptist Church-AS0051	0.1 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000002 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ashley County	All 28 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.