Richardson-Turner House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Richardson-Turner House is a historic house at 1469 Arkansas Highway 1 in Lexa, Arkansas. It is a wood-frame structure, built in 1894 by Dr.”
Wikipedia article Richardson-Turner House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Richardson--Turner House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1469 AR 1 N, Lexa, 72355
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. building
Township. Spring Creek township
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 98000583 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Richardson-Turner House between 1999 and 2008, burning about 72 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
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	29 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2000	Smoking	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 October 1999	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexa, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexa	$30,000	Straight-line winds damaged an outbuilding on Highway 242. A mobile home was pushed off block piers and two homes suffered roof damage along Highway 242.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexa	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Lexa.
April 1998	Hail	Lexa	$750	no account filed
March 2001	Hail	Lexa	$10	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Lexa	-	Quarter-sized hail observed in Lexa.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexa	-	Straight line winds blew several trees down in Lexa.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexa	-	Straight line winds knocked down a few trees in Lexa.
May 2024	Hail	Lexa	-	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
Phillips County Penal Farm Historic District	2.5 miles	2007
Henry and Cornelia Ford Farm	5.1 miles	2006
Helena Aero Tech Hangars	6.7 miles	2021
Mayo House	7.3 miles	1997
First Baptist Church	7.3 miles	1991
Eliza Miller Junior and Senior High School	7.5 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000583 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.
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.