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Ackins House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Ackins House was a historic house in Floyd, Arkansas. Located on the east side of Arkansas Highway 31 just north of its intersection with Arkansas Highway 305, it was one of the small number of early houses to survive in White County at the time it was listed as a historic site.”

Wikipedia article Ackins 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of AR 31 and AR 305, Floyd, 72143
  • When was it listed? July 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. White County MPS
  • Township. Cadron township
  • National Register reference number. 91001322 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

58 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Ackins House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,145 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 burning26
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
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
1 September 2000Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2012Debris and open burning30 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 Ackins House: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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
Dugout QuarryFlagstoneProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floyd, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1999Tornado (F2)Floyd2 killed, 2 hurtno account filed
April 2008Tornado (EF1)Floyd$25,000Trees were blown down and there was roof damage to a few structures.
September 2009Flash FloodFloyd$10,000Beebe-Capps Expressway was partially flooded on the outside lanes. Arkansas Highway 367 south of Searcy had waster over the road in several places. Arkansas Highway 36 west of Searcy had water over it in several places. Lake Barnett was flooded and several creeks in Searcy were out of their banks.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFloyd$1,000A tree was blown down on Arkansas 31.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindFloyd-Multiple trees were damaged and sheet metal panels were blown off a metal shop building near the community of Floyd.
June 1995HailFloyd-Hail up to quarter-size damaged roofs and broke windows at Floyd.
April 2014HailFloyd-no account filed
October 2002HailFloyd-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindFloyd-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
Floyd Cotton Ginunder 500 feet1992
L. D. Hutchinson House0.3 miles1992
Gravel Hill Baptist Church4.0 miles1992
Roy Harper House4.6 miles1992
Pence-Carmichael Farm, Barn and Root Cellar5.4 miles1992
Scott-Davis House5.7 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001322 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.