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Rucker House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Rucker House, also known as the Caretaker's House, is a historic house at Benton and School Streets in Bauxite, Arkansas. It is a vernacular two-story wood-frame structure, with a side gable central section that has a cross-gable section at the western end, and a second wing extending northward from the eastern end.”

Wikipedia article Rucker House (Bauxite, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Saline County · listed in 1988 · 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. AR 183 and Gibbons Rd., Bauxite, 72011
  • When was it listed? June 1988
  • Category. building
  • Township. Bauxite township
  • National Register reference number. 88000744 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

153 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Rucker House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 831 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 46 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
Arson/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Debris and open burning40
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural6

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2015Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionSAL22536123

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Rucker House: 34 unknowns, 8 producers, 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay, Niobium (Columbium), Kaolin, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alcoa Arkansas OperationsAluminum, Gallium, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, FreeProducer1886, 1952
Arkansas Bauxite RegionKaolin, AluminumProducer1887, 1896
Belvedere S & G Co. Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bryant MillTalc-Soapstone, Slate, DimensionProducer
Gingles DepositBentoniteUnknown
Hurricane Creek DepositNiobium (Columbium)Occurrence
Milwhite BariteBarium-BariteProducer
Quapaw Bauxite MineAluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, FreePast Producer1920, 1932
Republic Mining & Mgf. Co.IronUnknown
Saline CountyAluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, FreeProspect1887

Every working recorded in Saline County

Storms near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bauxite, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2011Thunderstorm WindBauxite$25,000Numerous trees were blown down in the Bauxite area.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBauxite$5,000Trees were toppled.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBauxite$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew trees down.
July 2010Flash FloodWest Bauxite$1,000Water was over Arkansas Highway 183.
April 2019Flash FloodWest Bauxite-A trained spotter reported several inches of water flowing over Highway 183 on the east side of Bauxite.
April 2019HailWest Bauxite-Received reports of one inch diameter hail between Benton and Bauxite from mPING and from trained storm spotters.
February 2018FloodWest Bauxite-Storm spotter reports water from Hurricane Creek is covering Sardis Road near Bauxite.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindBauxite-Trees and power lines were reported down. Parts of the city were without power.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBauxite-Several trees were knocked down.
April 1994HailBauxite-Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
March 2018HailWest Bauxite-no account filed
May 2011HailBauxite-no account filed
May 2011HailBauxite-no account filed
May 2011HailWest Bauxite-no account filed
April 2009HailBauxite-no account filed
April 2007HailWest Bauxite-no account filed
March 2005HailBauxite-no account filed
June 2004HailBauxite-no account filed
January 1999Thunderstorm WindBauxite-no account filed
August 1999HailBauxite-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindBauxite-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Old Benton-Sardis Road Bridge0.5 miles2007
Hester-Lenz House3.9 miles2004
International Harvester Servicenter4.2 miles2020
Bennett House4.2 miles2020
J. W. and Ann Lowe Clary House4.3 miles1993
Gan Row Historic District4.4 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88000744 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saline CountyAll 20 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.