Wyatt House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Wyatt House is a historic house at Gainer Ferry Road and Arkansas Highway 25 in Desha, Arkansas. It is a two-story I-house, three bays wide, with a side gable roof, end chimneys, and a single-story ell extending to the rear.”
Wikipedia article Wyatt House (Desha, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Independence County · listed in 1999 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. AR 25 and Gainer Ferry Rd., Desha, 72501
When was it listed? March 1999
Category. building
Township. Greenbrier township
National Register reference number. 99000263 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

52 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Wyatt House between 1997 and 2018, burning about 388 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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 burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Natural	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2012	Natural	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Wyatt House: 12 unknowns, 11 producers, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Texas Lime Co Plant	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Texas Line Co Pit	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Arkansas Lime Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crusher #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Sheid Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown	Limestone
Limedale Lime Plant	Limestone, General	Producer
Midwest Lime Co	Limestone, General	Producer
Stoney Point Pit	Limestone, General	Producer

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this property

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Desha, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 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
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Desha	$250,000	Numerous large trees were blown down. Two trees fell into houses and three fell on vehicles. A shop building was destroyed, with flying debris from the shop ending up against the house next door. Power lines, and cable and telephone lines were blown down. Two firefighters were injured during the clean-up process; these are counted as indirect injuries.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Desha	-	A tree was blown down onto Arkansas Highway 14/Heber springs Road near the town of Desha.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Desha	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs and overturned a carport. An outdoor wooden stage was destroyed as well.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Desha	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees, power lines and caused roof damage to several buildings.
June 2014	Hail	Desha	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Desha	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Desha	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Desha	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Desha	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Desha	-	no account filed
October 2004	Hail	Desha	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Desha	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Wheel Store, The	2.5 miles	1988
Adler House	2.6 miles	1982
Batesville Confederate Monument	2.6 miles	1996
Luster Urban Farmstead	2.7 miles	1983
Dondy Building	2.7 miles	1982
Batesville Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)	2.7 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000263 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Independence County	All 43 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.