Photograph of William Howell House, Storm Cellar — Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Storm Cellar, William Howell House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The William Howell House Storm Cellar is a historic rural farm outbuilding in northern White County, Arkansas. It is located off County Road 47, east of its junction with Arkansas Highway 305, near the crossroads village of Clay.”
Wikipedia article William Howell House, Storm Cellar, 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rd. 47 E of jct. with AR 305, Clay, 72143
When was it listed? July 1992
Category. building
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Big Creek township
National Register reference number. 91001295 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Storm Cellar, William Howell House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 617 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
8 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	55 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
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Storm Cellar, William Howell House: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clay, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2017	Flash Flood	Clay	$5,000	Crook Road was flooded and water was in some of the residences.
April 2003	Hail	Clay	-	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
Sam Ray House	0.3 miles	1992
Albert Whisinant House	1.9 miles	1992
Wesley Marsh House	2.2 miles	1992
Livestock and Equipment Barn, Glenn Homestead	2.5 miles	1992
Joe Emmer House	2.9 miles	1992
Letona Hotel	3.4 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001295 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.