Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“The Samuel Brown House is a historic house in West Richwoods, Arkansas. Located down a long lane south of Arkansas Highway 9, it is a single-story log dogtrot house, with its two pens separated by an open breezeway.”
Wikipedia article Samuel Brown House (West Richwoods, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 85002204 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
52 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Samuel Brown House
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 531 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Arson/incendiarism
8
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Samuel Brown House: 7 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
West Richwoods, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Storm survey revealed a tornado developed south of Mt. View just|east of AR State Hwy 9 west of Stewart Road northwest of the|community of Hanover. The tornado continued generally east-|southeast crossing Hanover and Luber Roads. The tornado then|moved a more easterly direction toward the intersection of|Misenheimer and Waco Roads, dropping off the plateau crossing AR|State Hwy 5 west of Arbana. The tornado then crossed Iron|Mountain Road, eventually lifting near the intersection of Stone|County Road 273 and Bob Davis Mountain Road southwest of the|Pleasant Grove community. Damage to barns and outbuildings was|noted, along with many trees blown down. This tornado was rated|EF1, with maximum estimated winds of 110 mph and width of|approximately 400 yds.
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.
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.
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