Phillips County Penal Farm Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Phillips County Penal Farm Historic District encompasses a former prison facility in Phillips County, Arkansas. It is located on the east side of County Road 353, south of United States Route 49, about halfway between Helena-West Helena and Marvell.”
Wikipedia article Phillips County Penal Farm Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty Rd. 353 S of US 49, Poplar Grove, 72374
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. district
Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
Township. Spring Creek township
National Register reference number. 06001268 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Phillips County Penal Farm Historic District between 1999 and 2008, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	29 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 October 1999	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 January 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poplar Grove, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 hail. 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
February 2008	Hail	Poplar Grove	$1,000	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Poplar Grove	-	Half-dollar-sized hail in Poplar Grove.

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

5 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
Richardson-Turner House	2.5 miles	1998
Mayo House	6.2 miles	1997
First Baptist Church	6.2 miles	1991
Henry and Cornelia Ford Farm	7.2 miles	2006
Helena Aero Tech Hangars	7.6 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001268 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Phillips County	All 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.