Walter Gray House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Walter Gray House is a historic house in rural southeastern Stone County, Arkansas. It is located on the Melrose Loop, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of Arkansas Highway 14 between Locust Grove and Marcella.”
Wikipedia article Walter Gray House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1985 · 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. Gray, Walter, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off AR 14, Melrose, 72550
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Stone County MRA
District. District 6
National Register reference number. 85002212 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

47 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Walter Gray House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,954 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Walter Gray House: 2 unknowns. None of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melrose, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Melrose	-	Trees and power lines were blown down along Arkansas Hwy 14.
April 2004	Flash Flood	Melrose	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Taylor-Stokes House	1.7 miles	1985
Jessie Abernathy House	3.8 miles	1985
Binks Hess House and Barn	3.8 miles	1985
Owen Martin House	3.9 miles	1985
Marcella Church & School	3.9 miles	1985
Thomas M. Hess House	3.9 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002212 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stone County	All 58 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.