Marianna Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Marianna Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic civic and commercial heart of Marianna, Arkansas, the county seat of Lee County. It comprises two blocks of Main Street and two blocks of Poplar Street, which cross at the northwest corner of Court Square, a city park where the Gen.”
Wikipedia article Marianna Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Portions of Chestnut, Liberty, East Columbia, Mississippi, Poplar, Main, Court and Church Sts., Marianna, 72360
When was it listed? January 2001
Category. district
Township. Independence township
National Register reference number. 00001559 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Marianna Commercial Historic District between 1994 and 2013, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.1 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	TAYLOR
13 June 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 March 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CABIN ROAD
24 March 1994	Natural	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	WEST FIRE
19 March 1994	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	KEISLING
12 March 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BEAR CREEK LAKE
9 February 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PICKETT 1
15 January 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SNOOPY

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Marianna Commercial Historic District: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
	Lee Cty	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marianna, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	1 killed, $5,000	A tree was blown over and fell on a car killing the driver. Other trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$25,000	Roof partially peeled off of a retail building on Chestnut Street.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$20,000	Power poles knocked down between Brickeys and Marianna.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$20,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down in both Marianna and Aubrey.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$15,000	Three homes suffered minor damage. A large door on a farm shop was blown in. A small storage building overturned and rolled. Some farm equipment was moved around. Some trees and power lines were knocked down as well.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$10,000	Several broken utility poles on Chestnut Street in Marianna.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$10,000	Straight line winds damaged trailers and knocked down trees along Highway 1, just south of Marianna.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$5,000	Several power lines were knocked down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$5,000	Some trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and blew a car off the road.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$4,000	Straight line winds blew several trees and power lines down in Marianna.
April 2008	Hail	Marianna	$2,000	Quarter hail fell along Highway 79, 5 miles west of Marianna.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$2,000	no account filed
October 2009	Flash Flood	Marianna	$1,000	Several streets were flooded in the downtown section of Marianna.
March 2008	Hail	Marianna	$1,000	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Marianna	$1,000	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Marianna	$1,000	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Marianna	$1,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and power lines.
June 2003	Hail	Marianna	$10	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Marianna	$10	no account filed
January 2023	Flash Flood	Marianna	-	Highway 79 was closed in both directions in Marianna.
March 2021	Hail	Marianna	-	Golf ball size hail fell near Marianna.
April 2019	Flood	Marianna	-	Heavy rain resulted in flooding on Highway 79 in Marianna.
February 2018	Flood	Marianna	-	High water temporarily blocked Highway 79, near the railroad trestle, in Marianna.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Marianna	-	Straight line winds knocked a few trees and power poles down in Marianna.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Marianna	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding near Marianna. Creeks and ditches that run into the L'Anguille River were overflowing between Highway 1 and the river, northwest of Marianna.
June 2011	Hail	Marianna	-	Quarter to ping pong ball size hail fell near Highway 79 just west of Marianna.
March 2025	Hail	Marianna	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Marianna	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Marianna	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Gen. Robert E. Lee Monument	under 500 feet	1996
Marianna National Guard Armory	under 500 feet	2007
Lee County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1995
Elks Club	0.1 miles	1979
McClintock House	0.2 miles	1982
Marianna Missouri-Pacific Depot	0.3 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001559 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee County	All 11 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.