Ficklin-Imboden House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Ficklin--Imboden House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Third and Main Sts., Powhatan, 72458
When was it listed? October 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Powhatan MPS
Township. Black River township
National Register reference number. 88003206 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

45 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Ficklin-Imboden House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,031 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
9 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2012	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 April 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 April 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Ficklin-Imboden House: 19 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Casper Mine	Zinc	Past Producer
Toles Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Black Rock Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Verkler Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Adams Prospects	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Campbell Zinc Co's Shafts 2 & 3	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unk	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
D F Jones	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this property

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powhatan, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2014	Flash Flood	Powhatan	$488,000	Heavy rain caused flash flooding between Imboden and Black Rock. Highway 63 was flooded.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Powhatan	$75,000	Many trees and power-lines down across Lawrence county. One tree blocking the railroad.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Powhatan	$2,000	Straight line winds blew two large trees down in Powhatan.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Powhatan	-	Water was over parts of roads in Lawrence County, with reports of accidents.
March 2010	Hail	Powhatan	-	Quarter size hail fell in Powhatan and Black Rock. The hail covered the ground in Black Rock.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Telephone Exchange Building	under 500 feet	1989
Powhatan Jail	under 500 feet	1989
Powhatan Methodist Church	0.2 miles	1977
Powhatan Courthouse	0.2 miles	1970
Powhatan Schoolhouse	0.2 miles	1978
US 63 Black River Bridge	1.7 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003206 in Record Group 79.
Lawrence County	All 31 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.