Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
From the record
“Chism House is a historic house in rural Logan County, Arkansas north of Booneville, on the east side of Arkansas Highway 23 about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of its junction with Arkansas Highway 217. A two-story log dogtrot house, it has two log pens flanking an open breezeway and a gable roof for cover.”
Wikipedia article Dr. Stephen H. Chism House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 44 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 94000853 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
91 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Stephen N. Chism House
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 734 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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
31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
30
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Natural
9
Arson/incendiarism
5
Recreation and ceremony
2
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
1 working within 5 miles of Dr. Stephen N. Chism House: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
Booneville, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 42 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado.
The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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.
The roof of a building was damaged and a window was blown out of a store. Trees, power lines, and power poles were knocked down. Trees fell on several residences and a barn.
A metal roof was blown off a building housing the Arkansas Revenue Office and a medical clinic. Part of the brick facade of the building fell into the street. The bricks damaged some other businesses and vehicles.
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
5 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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