Three States Lumber Company Mill Powerhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Three States Lumber Company Mill Powerhouse, also known as the Burdette Plantation Company Store, is a historic industrial site on Old Mill Road in Burdette, Arkansas. The only surviving element of what was once a much larger sawmill, the powerhouse is a two-part structure built in 1909 to provide electrical power to the Three States Lumber Company.”
Wikipedia article Three States Lumber Company Mill Powerhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 sitess, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Old Mill Rd., Burdette, 72358
When was it listed? October 2001
Category. building
Township. Burdette township
National Register reference number. 01001175 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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 Three States Lumber Company Mill Powerhouse: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
	Stauffer Phosphate Deposit No.4	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Unknown
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burdette, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdette	$70,000	no account filed
April 2003	Lightning	Burdette	$50,000	A house was destroyed by a fire started by lightning.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdette	$25,000	A swath of straight line winds uprooted and snapped trees, knocked down power poles, and overturned an irrigation pivot in northeast Mississippi County.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdette	$5,000	Semi blown off the road on I-55 at the 58 mile marker.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdette	$2,000	A large tree was uprooted in Burdette.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdette	$2,000	A tree was knocked down and a window was blown out in Burdette.
June 2001	Hail	Burdette	$10	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Burdette	-	Half dollar size hail fell near Burdette on Interstate 55.
October 2009	Heavy Rain	Burdette	-	A man died when his car ran off Highway 61 into a flooded ditch.
April 2025	Hail	Burdette	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Burdette	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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
Chris Tompkins House	under 500 feet	2001
Burdette School Complex Historic District	0.3 miles	2001
Widner-Magers Farm Historic District	7.2 miles	2007
Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Steam Locomotive #34 and Associated Rolling Stock	7.8 miles	2022
Violet Cemetery	7.8 miles	2004
West Main Street Residential Historic District	7.9 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001175 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mississippi County	All 40 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.
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.