Denison House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Denison House is a historic house at 427 Garland Avenue in West Helena, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick structure with a broad and shallow hip roof with wide hip-roof dormers, built in 1910 by J.”
Wikipedia article Denison House (Helena-West Helena, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 427 Garland Ave., West Helena, 72390
When was it listed? October 1996
Category. building
Also known as. West Helena MPS
Township. Hornor township
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 96001132 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Denison House between 1992 and 2015, burning about 138 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BLAIR
17 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ELM
6 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CANE
6 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BULL RUSH
7 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TURKEY
15 March 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Denison House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Phillips Cnty Hiwy Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Helena, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	West Helena	$250,000	Four businesses were damaged. Four homes were also damaged. Some trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 2004	Flash Flood	West Helena	$100,000	Numerous businesses, homes and roads were flooded.
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	West Helena	$35,000	Thirty mobile homes were damaged. An outbuilding was also damaged and a fence was wrapped around a tree. A house under construction had the outer frame blown off. A parked 18-wheeler was blown over.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	West Helena	$20,000	Straight line winds knocked down trees and caused some minor roof damage in the West Helena and Helena area. A storage shed roof was blown off and another shed was picked up over a four foot fence and thrown into the side of a house.
February 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	West Helena	$20,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	West Helena	$5,000	A few trees were uprooted.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	West Helena	$5,000	Several trees were knocked down.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	West Helena	$5,000	Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	West Helena	$1,000	A police car windshield was destroyed by several tree limbs.
June 1995	Hail	West Helena	$100	Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 2001	Hail	West Helena	$10	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Faust House	0.4 miles	1996
Myers House	0.5 miles	1996
Nelson House	0.6 miles	1996
Gemmill-Faust House	0.6 miles	1996
Dr. Alfred A. and Adele Berger House	0.9 miles	2021
Chicago Mill Company Office Building	0.9 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001132 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Phillips County	All 60 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.