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June Sandidge House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The June Sandidge House is a historic house at 811 Cherry Street in Gurdon, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame house with a brick veneer exterior, and represents an excellent and unusual local example of English Revival architecture.”

Wikipedia article June Sandidge House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1993 · 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. Sandidge, June, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 811 Cherry St., Gurdon, 71743
  • When was it listed? February 1993
  • Category. building
  • Township. Caddo township
  • National Register reference number. 93000093 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

127 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of June Sandidge House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,568 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 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
Railroad operations and maintenance35
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural6
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined177 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of June Sandidge House: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkClayPast Producer
Hardin Lavenrne S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mine Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R MorrisSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rickets Trucking Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith & Houston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gurdon, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 28 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 9 flash flood. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindGurdon$100,000Large oak trees were snapped and uprooted. Shingles were removed from several structures and tin roofing was ripped off and thrown 500 feet. Power lines and power poles were knocked down. Several trees fell into an electric substation, knocking out power to most of the Gurdon area. A tractor-trailer truck was blown off the road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGurdon$100,000Trees and power lines were blown down around Gurdon. One tree fell on a house. Arkansas Highway 53 and U.S. Highway 67 were blocked by fallen trees, as were a number of county roads.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindGurdon$50,000A tree was blown down onto a house. Numerous trees were blown down around Clark County, with trees falling onto U.S. 67 and Arkansas 51 and 53.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGurdon$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed a number of trees.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindGurdon$25,000A severe storm struck Gurdon for the second day in a row, knocking out power once again. Trees and power lines were blown down. One tree fell on U.S. 67 just north of Gurdon while another fell a couple of miles north of town, taking down power, phone, and cable lines. A plate glass window was blown out of a store downtown.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindGurdon$5,000Trees were blown down.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindGurdon$5,000Several trees were knocked down.
April 2011Flash FloodGurdon$1,000The railroad underpass in Gurdon was flooded.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGurdon$1,000A tree was down on Cherry Street.
May 2022Flash FloodGurdon-Local fire department performed a water rescue from a vehicle stalled in high water.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGurdon-Updated...A tree was blown down over Hwy 53 just south of Gurdon and caused an accident involving a log truck rollover.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindGurdon-Trees were blown down just northwest of Gurdon.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindGurdon-Trees were blown down by strong winds.
March 2021HailGurdon-Quarter inch hail was noted in Gurdon.
March 2021HailGurdon-Baseball sized hail resulted in broken windows in Gurdon.
October 2019Flash FloodGurdon-Flash flooding was reported near the Amtrak Depot.
May 2017Flash FloodGurdon-Flash flooding was reported along Highway 53 in Gurdon.
December 2017Flash FloodGurdon-Water was over roads.
April 2011HailGurdon-Hail from quarter to golf ball size fell.
May 2006HailGurdon-Hail up to golfball size broke out the windshield of a vehicle.
July 2006Flash FloodGurdon-State highway 53 was impassible due to high water levels.
November 2004Flash FloodGurdon-Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding in Gurdon. Several city streets were covered by high water for a few hours.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindGurdon-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindGurdon-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some power lines in Gurdon.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindGurdon-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindGurdon-Thunderstorm winds damaged several buildings in downtown Gurdon. The portion of a gas station canopy was blown off and the brick face of a local supermarket also sustained damage. Six cars that were parked at the supermarket were damaged when parts of the brick face came down off the building.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindGurdon-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
March 2021HailGurdon-no account filed
March 2011HailGurdon-no account filed
March 2010HailGurdon-no account filed
May 2009HailGurdon-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodGurdon-no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodGurdon-no account filed
May 2003HailGurdon-no account filed
May 2001HailGurdon-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
May 2001HailGurdon-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
January 1999Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
December 1999Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindGurdon-no account filed
April 1996HailGurdon-no account filed
April 1995HailGurdon-no account filed
March 1993HailGurdon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Horace Estes House0.4 miles1993
Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-Gurdon0.4 miles1992
Hoo Hoo Monument0.5 miles1999
Gurdon Jail0.6 miles1989
Ronoake Baptist Church1.5 miles2011
McNeely Creek Bridge4.4 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000093 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark CountyAll 43 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.