Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
From the record
“The Pfeiffer House is a historic house on United States Route 167 in Pfeiffer, Arkansas. Located on the west side the highway, north of its junction with Pfeiffer Road, it is a single-story stone structure with an extreme vernacular interpretation of American Craftsman styling.”
Wikipedia article Pfeiffer House (Pfeiffer, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Independence County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 89000172 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
97 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Pfeiffer House
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,207 acres in total. None started naturally. 42 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/incendiarism
42
Debris and open burning
30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
24
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
86 workings within 5 miles of Pfeiffer House: 48 past producers, 18 unknowns, 10 producers, 7 prospects.
10 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Limestone, General, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Pfeiffer, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
AR-IN-22 CoCoRaHS Gauge measured 5.55 inches of total rainfall over a 24 hour period. Multiple roadways were flooded in the town of Batesville and within Independence county, including a car that was observed overtaken by flood waters and began to float down the street.
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.