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Roy Harper House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Roy Harper House is a historic house in rural western White County, Arkansas. It is located about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of the hamlet of Romance, on the north side of County Road 16, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of its junction with County Road 24.”

Wikipedia article Roy Harper 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. Harper, Roy, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 16 E of jct. with AR 5, Romance, 72136
  • When was it listed? July 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. White County MPS
  • Township. Cadron township
  • National Register reference number. 91001304 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

51 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Roy Harper House between 1999 and 2020, burning about 945 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 burning22
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2

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
6 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2007Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2010Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2012Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Roy Harper House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romance, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 5 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2020Tornado (EF1)Romance4 hurt, $40,000The NWS survey revealed an EF1 tornado that started just west of Wayne |Walker Road, rolling a mobile home. Another mobile home was severely damaged off Highland Circle just to the east. Along R. G. Davis Road, a double-wide mobile home was pushed off the block foundation. A mobile home along Reames Road sustained roof damage. Other than damage to mobile homes, several trees were either snapped or uprooted along the path. This tornado lifted just southeast of the intersection of Reames and Blackjack Mountain Road. There were four injuries reported.
July 1996LightningRomance1 hurtno account filed
March 1994HailRomance$50,000Baseball-size hail broke several windows in Romance.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindRomance$30,000Trees and power lines were down across the area.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRomance$20,000Half of a metal roof was blown off a house, another house had siding damage, an outbuilding was destroyed, and trees were blown down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindRomance$5,000Several trees were knocked down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindRomance$500Thunderstorm winds blew down tree limbs.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRomance-A small and weak gustnado occurred in Hammondsville captured by a security camera.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRomance-A tree fell across the roadway near the community of Hammondsville.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindRomance-A store sustained some damage.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Romance-A weak tornado moved from Faulkner County into White County about 4.5 miles northwest of Romance. The tornado moved northeastward and remained on the ground for 5 miles before dissipating 5 miles north of Romance. Most of the damage consisted of downed trees and power poles. Several homes suffered roof damage from falling trees and torn off shingles.
December 2002Tornado (F1)Romance-A weak tornado moved from eastern Faulkner County into western White County about 3.5 miles west of Romance. The tornado traveled to the northeast for 6 miles before lifting. Damage along the path of the tornado consisted of a small trailer and camping trailer being overturned. Some shingles and other minor damage occurred to the roofs of several homes. Numerous trees were also blown down.
April 1994HailRomance-Thunderstorm winds blew down tree limbs.
April 2005HailRomance-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindRomance-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F1)Romance-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F1)Romance-no account filed
May 1997HailRomance-no account filed
December 1996HailRomance-no account filed
April 1996HailRomance-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindRomance-no account filed
February 1996HailRomance-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
Scott-Davis House2.7 miles1992
Pence-Carmichael Farm, Barn and Root Cellar3.5 miles1992
Floyd Cotton Gin4.5 miles1992
Ackins House4.6 miles1992
L. D. Hutchinson House4.6 miles1992
Mount Olive-Bedford Chapel Cemetery5.2 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001304 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.