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Emmett Miller House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Emmett Miller House was a historic house in rural White County, Arkansas. It was located on the west side of Arkansas Highway 13, north of Judsonia and east of Plainview.”

Wikipedia article Emmett Miller House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Miller, Emmett, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. AR 371 E of Plainview, Plainview, 72081
  • When was it listed? July 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. White County MPS
  • Township. Harrison township
  • National Register reference number. 91001237 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

74 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Emmett Miller House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 992 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Natural1

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 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWHI17887418
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Emmett Miller House: 20 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, 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
Aydelott MineManganeseUnknown
MidwestStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
MalvernSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plainview, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2009FloodPlainview$100,000The Little Red River at Judsonia went above flood stage Christmas Eve morning, and then went below flood stage the afternoon of Christmas Day. During that time, area residents along River Bend Drive in Searcy watched as large portions of their back yards were washed into the river due to the high water.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPlainview$7,000Several large trees were blown down around Plainview.
July 2011HailPlainview-no account filed
April 2006HailPlainview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Gray, Louis, Homestead, Barn0.4 miles1992
Tobe Hoofman Farmstead0.8 miles1992
Rock Building0.9 miles1992
Capt. Larned House1.1 miles1992
Thomas Hunt House1.8 miles1992
Hoofman Farmstead Barn2.1 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001237 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White CountyAll 203 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.