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Gray House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Gray House was a historic house in rural White County, Arkansas. It was located north of Crosby and northwest of Searcy, near the junction of County Roads 758 and 46.”

Wikipedia article Gray House (Crosby, Arkansas), 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct of Co. Rds. 758 and 46, Crosby, 72143
  • When was it listed? July 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. White County MPS
  • Township. Big Creek township
  • National Register reference number. 91001334 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

55 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Gray House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 798 acres in total. 2 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2004Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2012Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gray House: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Manganese. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast 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
Gray-Kincaid House0.8 miles1992
New Mt. Pisgah School1.8 miles1992
Burnett House3.3 miles1992
Critz, Col. John, Farm, Springhouse3.4 miles1992
Morris Institute Dairy Barn3.7 miles1992
Letona Hotel3.9 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001334 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.