John P. Fisher House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Fisher House is a historic plantation house on the shores of Bayou Bartholomew in Ashley County, Arkansas, west of the city of Portland. The two-story wood frame Greek Revival house is located north of the junction of Arkansas Highway 160 and County Road 50, west of the bayou bridge.”
Wikipedia article John P. Fisher House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Ashley 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Fisher, John P., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Jct. of AR 278 and Co. Rd. 50, W of Bayou Bartholomew Bridge, Portland, 71663
When was it listed? September 1995
Category. building
Township. Portland township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 95001141 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of John P. Fisher House between 2001 and 2018, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
28 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 October 2010	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 October 2003	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 October 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 January 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 January 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this property

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portland, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado, 2 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
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$100,000	Numerous buildings suffered roofing damage consisting of primarily shingle loss or tin peeling. Several large branches were also downed. Damage was consistent with strong southerly winds and stretched from Portland eastward along Highway 160. The most substantial damage occurred to an outbuilding that suffered enough roof damage to have insulation strewn down wind.
May 2011	Tornado (EF2)	Portland	$100,000	Ten power poles were snapped along with several overturned irrigation pivots. There was minor damage to the roofs of several homes, along with several trees snapped and uprooted. A carport was destroyed, and tin was blown off several outbuildings.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$100,000	Numerous trees and several power lines were blown down across the county. Damage was scattered in nature but widespread across the county.
March 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$50,000	A swath of straight line wind damage began near Highway 165 between Portland and Parkdale, Arkansas. Eight wooden power poles were snapped off to the east along Highway 165 just to the south of Portland. An outbuilding was flipped over to the east as well along Empire Road just inside Chicot County. The damage swath was about 3 miles long and 1 mile wide.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a shed at a local business.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Portland	$25,000	Farm equipment was under water and water occurred over a farm road in Portland.
February 2019	Flash Flood	Portland	$15,000	All lanes of Highway 160 were closed east of Portland due to flooding.
April 2019	Flash Flood	Portland	$10,000	Water covered roads and many county roads were impassable.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$10,000	Large oak trees were uprooted and a porch was damaged along Highway 160.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$5,000	Powerlines were blown down in Portland.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$5,000	A powerline was blown down along Highway 165.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a storage building.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Portland	$3,000	Minor street flooding occurred in Portland.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$3,000	Trees were blown down in Portland.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Portland	$2,000	Several trees were blown down across County Road 52.
March 2014	Hail	Portland	-	Dime to quarter sized hail was reported.
March 2008	Funnel Cloud	Portland	-	Funnel cloud was observed near Portland.
May 2008	Hail	Portland	-	A swath of quarter sized hail fell from an strengthening supercell thunderstorm.
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	Portland	-	This tornado was sighted by spotters. It touched down briefly and did not produce any damage.

Every storm recorded in Ashley 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

4 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
Pugh House	1.4 miles	1982
Dean House	1.4 miles	1982
Portland United Methodist Church	1.5 miles	2006
Naff House	2.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001141 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ashley County	All 28 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.