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Bacon Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Bacon Hotel, also known as the Sunrise Hotel, is a historic hotel building at the southeast corner of Railroad and Homestead Roads in Whitehall, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof and a two-story porch extending across its front.”

Wikipedia article Bacon Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Poinsett 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Homestead Rd. at jct. with RR tracks, SE corner, Whitehall, 72432
  • When was it listed? December 1995
  • Category. building
  • Township. Scott township
  • Architect. James Bacon
  • National Register reference number. 95001437 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bacon Hotel between 1998 and 2010, burning about 433 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2001Recreation and ceremony14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2010Debris and open burning32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 April 2003Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 March 2001Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Poinsett County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bacon Hotel: 4 producers, 3 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bartholamu PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bartholamu PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bay Village PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Whitehall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Poinsett County

Storms near this property

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehall, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2015HailWhitehall-Ping pong size hail near Whitehall.
March 2015Flash FloodWhitehall-Widespread street flooding near Whitehall.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWhitehall-Straight line winds knocked trees down across the southern part of Poinsett County.
April 2025HailWhitehall-no account filed
May 2023HailWhitehall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Poinsett 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

3 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
Modern News Building5.8 miles1976
Poinsett County Courthouse5.8 miles1989
Harrisburg Commercial Historic District6.0 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001437 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Poinsett CountyAll 23 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.