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One of 60 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Nelson House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 303 St. Andrew's Terrace, West Helena, 72390
- When was it listed? October 1996
- Category. building
- Also known as. West Helena MPS
- Township. Hornor township
- National Register reference number. 96001135 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Nelson House between 1992 and 2015, burning about 127 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| 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 |
| 6 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | CANE |
| 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 |
| 6 February 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | STORM CREEK |
| 10 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | CASTEWAY |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Nelson House: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | ||
| Helena Revetment | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Miss River Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Phillips Cnty Hiwy Dept | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Thompson | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
11 since 1995Regional 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 |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gemmill-Faust House | under 500 feet | 1996 |
 | Myers House | under 500 feet | 1996 |
 | Faust House | 0.3 miles | 1996 |
| Dr. Alfred A. and Adele Berger House | 0.3 miles | 2021 | |
 | Denison House | 0.6 miles | 1996 |
| Chicago Mill Company Office Building | 1.3 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96001135 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.