Mitchell House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Mitchell House is a historic house in rural Yell County, Arkansas. It is located on the north side of Arkansas Highway 80, east of the Waltreak Methodist Church, in a northeastern finger of the Ouachita National Forest.”
Wikipedia article Mitchell House (Waltreak, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Yell County · listed in 1990 · 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 5 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SR 80 W of Watson Branch, Waltreak, 72833
When was it listed? June 1990
Category. building
Township. Dutch Creek township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90000876 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Mitchell House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,432 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2

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
5 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2001	Natural	12 acres	Ouachita National Forest	POTATO KNOB
30 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	not named
24 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	WALTREAK
23 August 2005	Natural	3.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	989
20 August 2007	Natural	9.5 acres	Ouachita National Forest	CEDAR CREEK
14 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	DUTCH CREEK #5

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Storms near this property

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waltreak, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 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
September 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Waltreak	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yell 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000876 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yell County	All 33 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.
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.