Dr. F.W. Buercklin House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Buercklin House is a historic house at 104 Main Street in Portia, Arkansas. It is an L-shaped single-story Plain-Traditional frame and log structure whose initial construction is estimated to be 1880.”
Wikipedia article Dr. F.W. Buercklin House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Lawrence 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. Buercklin, Dr. F.W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 104 Main St., Portia, 72101
When was it listed? July 1998
Category. building
National Register reference number. 98000882 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portia, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 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
February 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Portia	$50,000	Multiple reports of trees downed across Lawrence County. A couple of barns sustained roof damage.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Portia	$10,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
March 1998	Hail	Portia	$10	no account filed
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Portia	-	Power lines were downed in Portia.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Portia	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding along Highway 63 between Portia and Ravenden. Three feet of water covered the road in spots.
April 2015	Hail	Portia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000882 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lawrence County	All 31 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.
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.