Willett House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Willett House is a historic house at 6563 Mount Holly Road, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Lisbon, Arkansas. The single story wood-frame house was built in 1926 by Scott and Mary Willett, and represents a well-preserved local example of Craftsman styling.”
Wikipedia article Willett House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6563 Mount Holly Rd., Lisbon, 71730
When was it listed? September 1995
Category. building
Township. Van Buren township
National Register reference number. 95001103 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

90 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Willett House between 1997 and 2019, burning about 591 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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	32
Debris and open burning	27
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Willett House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisbon, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Lisbon	$10,000	An EF1 tornado touched down southwest of Smackover, Arkansas downing several large trees and snapping others. A roof was also peeled back from a home southwest of town. The path width was 75 yards wide with a path length near 6 miles. The tornado continued into Ouachita County.
March 2024	Flash Flood	Lisbon	-	Several reports of flooding in El Dorado and the nearby Lisbon community.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Lisbon	-	Manhole covers were floating away due to floodwaters throughout El Dorado. Widespread flooding was observed across much of Union County.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	-	A large tree was blown down near the 4700 block of Mount Holly Highway. A vehicle ran into the tree was no injuries were reported.
April 2019	Flash Flood	Lisbon	-	Several pictures and videos of flooding across the city of El Dorado was posted to the KATV-TV Facebook page.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	-	Damaging thunderstorm winds uprooted a few trees, snapped large limbs, and blew shingles and a portion of metal roofing off of a couple of homes on Lisbon Road near the Lisbon community.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lisbon	-	A tree was blown down on Lisbon Road northwest of El Dorado, Arkansas.
December 2009	Flash Flood	Lisbon	-	Numerous roads were underwater across the county including 335, 172 and Mount Holly Road. ASP Troop F also reported Highway 167 was closed in several places.
February 2008	Hail	Lisbon	-	Quarter sized hail fell in the Lisbon community.
March 1996	Tornado (F0)	Lisbon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Mount Moriah Masonic Lodge No. 18	2.0 miles	1987
Goodwin Field Administration Building	3.8 miles	2018
D. McDonald House	7.6 miles	1990
Smackover Historic Commercial District	7.7 miles	1990
Oakland	7.9 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001103 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 40 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.