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T. H. Morris House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Morris House is a historic house at the southeast corner of 6th and Bethel Streets in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. It is a wood-frame American Foursquare structure, with a hip roof, and front and rear porches.”

Wikipedia article T.H. Morris House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Morris, T. H., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Jct. of 6th and Bethel Sts., Mammoth Spring, 72554
  • When was it listed? September 1990
  • Category. building
  • Township. Mammoth Spring township
  • National Register reference number. 90001462 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of T. H. Morris House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 987 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177597-02259-07042018-1845

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of T. H. Morris House: 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Silver. 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
Joe Kolosky ProspectLead, SilverProspect
E C Mainprize Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1943
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Arthur ArnoldIronOccurrenceSurface
Gus Hubble ProspectIronProspect
Ragan MineIronPast Producer
Ray Gladden PropertyIronProspect1895
Unknown - LimoniteIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this property

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mammoth Spring, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMammoth Spring$50,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
April 1993HailMammoth Spring$50,000Hail up to 1.00 inch in diameter, broke windows and damaged roofs and cars in Mammoth Spring.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindMammoth Spring-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindMammoth Spring-Several large limbs were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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

5 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
Mammoth Spring Dam and Lake0.6 miles2009
Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church0.6 miles1986
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad Depot0.7 miles1992
Spring River Bridge1.5 miles2014
AR 289 Bridge Over English Creek3.6 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001462 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton CountyAll 11 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.