Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
“The Chris Tompkins House is a historic house at 144 South Oak Drive in Burdette, Arkansas. It is a single story wood-frame structure, with a broadly overhanging hip roof and dormer.”
Wikipedia article Chris Tompkins House, 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
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chris Tompkins House: 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 |
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 |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three States Lumber Company Mill Powerhouse | under 500 feet | 2001 | |
| Burdette School Complex Historic District | 0.2 miles | 2001 | |
 | Widner-Magers Farm Historic District | 7.3 miles | 2007 |
 | Violet Cemetery | 7.7 miles | 2004 |
 | Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Steam Locomotive #34 and Associated Rolling Stock | 7.8 miles | 2022 |
 | Minaret Manor | 7.9 miles | 2017 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01001176 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. |
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