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Pfeiffer House

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.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. US 167, Pfeiffer, 72501
  • When was it listed? May 1989
  • Category. building
  • Township. Ashley township
  • Architectural style. bungalow
  • 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/incendiarism42
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 86 shown

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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BatesvillePlatinum, Limestone, DimensionOccurrenceUnknown
Stone Products CorpMarble, DimensionUnknown
Texas Lime Co PlantLimestone, DimensionProducer
Texas Line Co PitLimestone, DimensionProducer
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
Arkansas Lime CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Batesville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sheid QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownLimestone
Hickory ValleyPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPfeiffer$5,000A tree and power line fell and blocked U.S. 167.
August 2023Flash FloodPfeiffer-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.
April 2006HailPfeiffer-no account filed
March 2004HailPfeiffer-no account filed
October 2004HailPfeiffer-no account filed
July 2003HailPfeiffer-no account filed
May 1998HailPfeiffer-no account filed
May 1994HailPfeiffer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Batesville Overpass3.8 miles2021
Moorefield School4.4 miles1992
Mitchell House4.7 miles1982
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church4.7 miles1986
Batesville East Main Historic District4.9 miles1983
Bartlett-Kirk House4.9 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Independence CountyAll 43 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.