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Joe Emmer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Joe Emmer House was a historic house in rural northern White County, Arkansas. It was located on County Road 47, northwest of the Holly Springs Church.”

Wikipedia article Joe Emmer 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. Emmer, Joe, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 47, Holly Springs, 72143
  • When was it listed? July 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. White County MPS
  • Township. Big Creek township
  • National Register reference number. 91001327 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

58 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Joe Emmer House between 1998 and 2020, burning about 733 acres in total. None 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1

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
8 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2010Debris and open burning55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWHI17514057
20 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot 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 Joe Emmer House: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Clay. 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
Aydelott MineManganeseUnknown
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Storm Cellar, William Howell House2.9 miles1992
Wesley Marsh House3.0 miles1992
Sam Ray House3.1 miles1992
Hilger, Louis N., Homestead, Livestock Barn3.8 miles1992
Letona Hotel4.0 miles1991
Stanley Simpson Farmstead Picking Shed4.0 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001327 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.