Rufus Gray House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Rufus Gray House is a historic house at the southeast corner of Austin and South Streets in Pangburn, Arkansas, USA. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a hip-roofed central section that extends to projecting gables to the front and side.”
Wikipedia article Rufus Gray House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1991 · 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. Gray, Rufus, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Jct. of Austin and South Sts., Pangburn, 72121
When was it listed? September 1991
Category. building
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Big Creek township
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 91001294 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

77 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Rufus Gray House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,239 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 23 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 burning	30
Arson/incendiarism	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
27 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WHI17514057
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rufus Gray House: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pangburn, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 1996	Lightning	Pangburn	2 hurt	no account filed
April 2013	Lightning	Pangburn	$100,000	Lightning set fire to a house, burning it to the ground. Three all-terrain vehicles were also destroyed.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	$60,000	Trees fell on two mobile homes on First St., and a transformer fell onto Austin St.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Pangburn	$50,000	Rainfall measured 7.13 inches at Georgetown, 4.50 inches at Bradford and Griffithville, and 3.50 inches at Steprock. Roads and farm fields were flooded.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	$20,000	Arkansas Highway 16 was closed due to power lines across the road.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	$20,000	Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	$15,000	A tree was down on a house.
June 2014	Flood	Pangburn	$10,000	Due to the excessive rain on the morning of the 29th, some roads and fields remained flooded into July.
July 2014	Flood	Pangburn	$10,000	Due to excessive rain on the morning of June 29th, some roads and fields remained flooded into July.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	$7,000	no account filed
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	Multiple powerlines and tree limbs were blown down in Pangburn.
October 2022	Hail	Pangburn	-	A picture on twitter showed ping pong ball sized hail.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	Power poles were blown down at Pangburn.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	Trees were blown down on Hwy 16.
May 2009	Hail	Pangburn	-	Dime to penny size hail occurred in Pangburn.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Pangburn	-	Flooding occurred on Arkansas Highway 16.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Pangburn	-	Heavy rains flooded portions of Highway 16 for a brief period of time.
November 2005	Tornado (F1)	Pangburn	-	A weak tornado was spawned in northern White County close to the Pangburn area. The tornado tracked to the northeast, and destroyed a travel trailer. A shed was also overturned, with damage to the roof of a home and to a barn roof. Some trees were downed as well. The tornado dissipated 1.3 miles east-northeast of Pangburn.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and power lines.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	Several trees were blown down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	Several trees were blown down.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Pangburn	-	Heavy rains resulted in some street flooding in the Pangburn area. Some roadways were covered by high water for a few hours.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	Numerous trees were blown down in Pangburn.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	Some trees were blown down.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 2022	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
April 2018	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
March 2001	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
January 1999	Tornado (F1)	Pangburn	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Pangburn	-	no account filed
December 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Pangburn	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
James William Boggs House	under 500 feet	1991
Dr. McAdams House	under 500 feet	1991
John Shutter House	0.1 miles	1991
Churchill-Hilger House	0.1 miles	1991
Austin Pangburn House	0.2 miles	1991
Avanell Wright House	0.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001294 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White County	All 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.