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Photograph of Turner Historic District
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Turner Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Turner Historic District encompasses the 19th-century core of the small community of Cypert in rural Phillips County, Arkansas. Located at the junction of Arkansas Highway 318 and County Road 606, south-southwest of Marvell, the district includes a store and house, both built and operated by members of the Turner family, who were among the first to settle the area.”

Wikipedia article Turner Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Corners of AR 318 and Phillips Cty Rd. 606, Cypert, 72366
  • When was it listed? March 2006
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Cotton and Rice Farm History and Architecture in the Arkansas Delta MPS
  • Township. Cleveland township
  • National Register reference number. 06000073 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Turner Historic District between 2000 and 2001, burning about 156 acres in total. None 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 November 2000Arson/incendiarism90 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 October 2000Debris and open burning19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 October 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 October 2000Debris and open burning31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 October 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this property

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cypert, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCypert-Multiple downed trees in the Cypert community near County Road 606 and Highway 318.

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
First Baptist Church5.2 miles1991
Mayo House5.2 miles1997
Little Cypress Creek Bridge5.9 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000073 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Phillips CountyAll 60 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.
  • 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.