Blytheville Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Blytheville Commercial Historic District encompasses most of the central business district of Blytheville, Arkansas, one of the TWO JUDICIAL DISTRICTS of Mississippi County. It extends along Main Street between 5th and Franklin Streets, and along Ash Street between 5th and 2nd.”
Wikipedia article Blytheville Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Main St. bet. 5th and Franklin Sts., Ash St. bet. 5th and 2nd Sts., Blytheville, 72315
When was it listed? May 2006
Category. district
Township. Chickasawba township
National Register reference number. 06000421 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

60 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blytheville, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 lightning. 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
June 1999	Lightning	Blytheville	1 killed	A man was killed by a lightning strike while working on the roof of a building.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. Some roads were blocked for a time by fallen trees.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$40,000	Several cotton wagons are blown over. A few power poles were snapped. A privacy fence was also blown down. A carport had a wall blown out. Numerous trees were knocked down. One tree fell on a garage.
April 1998	Tornado (F1)	Blytheville	$25,000	The tornado touched down in the south central part of Blytheville. The main damage was contained in a two-block section. A 60-ton air conditioner until located on the roof of a supermarket was moved. Many large trees were toppled and several residences sustained roof damage.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$20,000	A tree fell on a house causing significant damage.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$20,000	One building suffered roof and structural damage. Some trees and power lines were blown down.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$15,000	Tree down on a truck on County Road 711.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$10,000	A church had some of its windows blown out. Several trees were knocked down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$10,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2007	Lightning	Blytheville	$7,000	Lightning struck a tree and power lines on West Walnut Street in Blytheville causing them to fall on a nearby house. Moderate damage was reported to the house, but no injuries were reported.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$7,000	Straight line winds blew a tree down on a house as well as a few other trees in Blytheville.
January 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$5,000	A non-structural wall located at the back of the Great River Medical Center was blown down.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$5,000	Some trees were blown down.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$5,000	Some power lines were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$5,000	Some trees were knocked down.
April 2003	Flash Flood	Blytheville	$5,000	Numerous fields were flooded that required replanting. Many streets were also flooded.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$5,000	Some trees were knocked down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$5,000	A light-weight metal carport was blown over. A few trees were knocked down.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$5,000	A large tree was blown down on top of a car.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$5,000	Some trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$5,000	no account filed
December 1996	Lightning	Blytheville	$5,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$3,000	A tree was knocked down on to powerlines on Marr Avenue in Blytheville.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$2,000	Tree down at the intersection of 10th and Hearn.
April 2008	Hail	Blytheville	$1,500	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Blytheville	$1,500	no account filed
February 2005	Hail	Blytheville	$1,100	no account filed
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$1,000	Large tree uprooted near the intersection of North Franklin and East Moultrie.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$1,000	Straight line winds knocked down a large tree at Walnut Street and 2nd Street in Blytheville.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$1,000	Some trees were knocked down 4 miles south of Blytheville.
August 2002	Lightning	Blytheville	$1,000	A shed was damaged by a fire started by lightning.
June 1998	Flood	Blytheville	$1,000	Several streets were flooded after nearly 4 inches of rain fell in the area.
June 2006	Hail	Blytheville	$1,000	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$1,000	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Blytheville	$1,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Blytheville	$850	A cotton crop was damaged by hail which ranged in size from quarters to golf ball.
April 2003	Hail	Blytheville	$150	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Blytheville	$100	Nearly all crops grown between Yarbro and Huffman were totally destroyed by the hail.
April 2003	Hail	Blytheville	$100	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Blytheville	$100	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$100	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Blytheville	$100	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Blytheville	$50	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Blytheville	$50	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
November 2002	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
December 1996	Hail	Blytheville	$10	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	-	Trees down in downtown Blytheville.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	-	Straight-line winds knocked trees down around town. A fence was damaged by a fallen tree.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Blytheville	-	A large tree fell on a house.

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
Mississippi County Courthouse, Chickasawba District	under 500 feet	1996
Blytheville Greyhound Bus Station	0.2 miles	1987
West Main Street Residential Historic District	0.5 miles	2010
Kress Building	0.6 miles	1997
Blytheville Air Force Base Strategic Air Command (SAC) Alert and Weapons Storage Areas Historic District	2.2 miles	2018
Blytheville Air Force Base Capehart Housing Historic District	4.0 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000421 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.
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.