Hughes Water Tower

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Hughes Water Tower is located on Church Street in Hughes, Arkansas. It is a metal structure consisting of four legs, sloping inward as they rise, which support a roughly cylindrical tower with bowl-shaped bottom and a conical roof.”
Wikipedia article Hughes Water Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for St. Francis County · listed in 2006 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Church St., Hughes, 72348
When was it listed? October 2006
Category. structure
Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
Township. Garland township
National Register reference number. 06000905 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hughes, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
April 2022	Lightning	Hughes	$60,000	Lightning destroyed home in Newcastle community north of Forrest City. The home was a total loss.
January 1996	Tornado (F1)	Hughes	$50,000	no account filed
February 2000	Tornado (F0)	Hughes	$25,000	A mobile home was overturned. Several homes were damaged.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hughes	$5,000	Several big trees and power lines were blown down.
September 2009	Flash Flood	Hughes	$1,000	Several roads and parking lots in the area had between 2 and 4 inches of water covering them.
April 2002	Hail	Hughes	$750	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Hughes	$200	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Hughes	$50	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Hughes	$10	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Hughes	$10	no account filed
February 2000	Hail	Hughes	$10	no account filed
April 2026	Flash Flood	Hughes	-	There was about two feet of water rushing across County Road 313.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hughes	-	Straight line winds knocked down trees on to county vehicles on Highway 284 and at the intersection of Highway 75 and Highway 70. One mobile home was severely damaged at the intersection of Highway 70 and Highway 79 in Chatfield. Two mobile homes were severely damaged in Shearerville.

Every storm recorded in St. Francis 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000905 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Francis County	All 16 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.