Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The Patton House is a historic house on the south side of Arkansas Highway 25 in Wooster, Arkansas. It is a wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a concrete block foundation.”
Wikipedia article Patton House (Wooster, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Faulkner County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 93001026 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
70 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Patton House
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 555 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning
40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
18
Arson/incendiarism
9
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Patton House: 6 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wooster, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain.
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.
This tornado knocked down or snapped numerous trees and a few power lines. Several houses had roof damage from falling trees. One house had a gutter ripped off and one of the eaves damaged by a falling tree.
A weak tornado was spawned in western Faulkner County about 2.8 miles south of Wooster. The tornado tracked to the northeast, and caused some roof damage at several homes and also damaged a few mobile homes. Some outbuildings were destroyed, as was a dugout at a junior high school in Greenbrier. Many trees were blown down as well. The tornado dissipated 1.7 miles north-northeast of Greenbrier.
A weak tornado touched down briefly in Faulkner County south of Wooster. The first signs of damage were some tops of trees snapped off just west of Highway 25. The tornado increased in intensity as is moved northeastward damaging a home and business just east of the highway. The roof of a storage building was blown off and several small greenhouses were destroyed. A home further to the northeast was damaged, with the front porch torn off and tossed into the backyard. A covered garage was destroyed as well as a nearby building. Several trees in the area were also blown down. The tornado dissipated about 2.5 miles southeast of Wooster.
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.
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.
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