William H. Smith House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Smith House is a historic house in the small community of Atlanta, Arkansas. It is located northeast of the junction of Arkansas Highway 98 and County Road 85.”
Wikipedia article William H. Smith House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Columbia 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. Smith, William H., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N of jct. of AR 98 and Co. Rd. 85, Atlanta, 71740
When was it listed? November 1992
Category. building
Township. Emerson township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 92001630 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

48 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of William H. Smith House between 1998 and 2019, burning about 802 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	24 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlanta, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2016: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Atlanta	-	Trees and power lines down near the Atlanta community east of Emerson. Power was out to much of this area as well.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Atlanta	-	A large tree was downed southeast of Magnolia, Arkansas blocking Hwy. 98.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Atlanta	-	Numerous trees and power lines down resulting in a grass fire.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	W. H. Allen House	5.3 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001630 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 24 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.
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.