Tichnor Rice Dryer and Storage Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Tichnor Rice Dryer and Storage Building is a historic rice processing facility at 1030 Arkansas Highway 44 in Tichnor, Arkansas. It is an L-shaped structure, four stories in height, and rests on a concrete pad that is open to truck access on its north, east, southeast, and northwest elevations.”
Wikipedia article Tichnor Rice Dryer and Storage Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Arkansas County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1030 AR 44, Tichnor, 72166
When was it listed? September 2006
Category. building
Also known as. Cotton and Rice Farm History and Architecture in the Arkansas Delta MPS
Township. Chester township
National Register reference number. 06000911 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tichnor Rice Dryer and Storage Building between 2008 and 2017, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	PENIX FIRE
29 January 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Arkansas County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tichnor, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Tichnor	$15,000	A tree fell on a pickup truck.
September 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Tichnor	$15,000	Shingles were torn off a house, tin was peeled back on the roof of a barn, and some trees were knocked down.
September 2011	Hail	Tichnor	$6,000	Huge hail broke windows in a house and put large dents in two vehicles. On one of the vehicles, paint was knocked off.
September 2011	Hail	Tichnor	$5,000	Huge hail broke windows in a house and broke the windshields of two trucks.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tichnor	$2,000	A tree was blown down on Arkansas 44.
June 2023	Hail	Tichnor	-	Golf ball sized hail fell near Tichnor.
September 2007	Flash Flood	Tichnor	-	Water was over several roads in the Tichnor area.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tichnor	-	Several trees were knocked down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Tichnor	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Tichnor	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Tichnor	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arkansas 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Gillett Jail, Old	6.5 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000911 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arkansas County	All 24 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.