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Photograph of Walker Homestead Historic District
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Walker Homestead Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Walker Homestead Historic District encompasses a collection of related agricultural and homesteading properties in rural White County, Arkansas. Located on Gum Spring Road about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Arkansas Highway 267 southwest of Searcy, the district includes two farmstead houses, a barn, tenant housing, cotton gin, and other features.”

Wikipedia article Walker Homestead Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Co. Rd. 56 E of jct. with AR 267, Garner, 72143
  • When was it listed? July 1992
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. White County MPS
  • Township. Gum Springs township
  • National Register reference number. 91001351 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Walker Homestead Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 483 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2001Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2006Debris and open burning58 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Walker Homestead Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Searcy Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unk Gravel Pits 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
White Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garner, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindGarner-A few power poles were snapped in the vicinity of Garner.
April 2024HailGarner-Quarter-sized hail fell near the community of Garner.
January 2020Flash FloodGarner-ARDOT reported Hwy 13 north of McRae was closed due to high water. Time was estimated from radar.
February 2019Flash FloodGarner-Flash flooding caused water to run over the roadway. Ditches near the road were full of water and vehicles were stranded.
February 2018Flash FloodGarner-Vinity Rd. near McRae was closed due to high water.
April 2006HailGarner-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindGarner-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
Mary Alice Hammond House2.4 miles1992
Williams House3.2 miles1992
Rascoe House4.4 miles1992
Hassell House4.5 miles1991
Baldock House4.5 miles1991
Bell House4.5 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001351 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.