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.
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 burning
26
Arson/incendiarism
14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
11
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Natural
2
Smoking
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
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.
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.
Beebe-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.
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.
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.