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Tuckerman Water Tower

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Tuckerman Water Tower is a historic waterworks facility at the south end of Front Street in Tuckerman, Arkansas. It is a tall metal structure, with four latticed legs, braced with rods and sloping inward, to support a water tank that is bowl-shaped at the bottom and topped by a conical roof.”

Wikipedia article Tuckerman Water Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure · built in 1935.

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. South End of Front St., Tuckerman, 72473
  • When was it listed? May 2007
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Bird township
  • When was it built? 1935
  • National Register reference number. 07000443 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Tuckerman Water Tower between 1999 and 2017, burning about 153 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 March 2014Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionJAC2549654
2 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 November 2005Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 November 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 January 2014Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionJAC4833

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tuckerman Water Tower: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuckerman, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
January 1999Tornado (F1)Tuckerman1 hurtno account filed
July 2009Flash FloodTuckerman$25,000In Tuckerman, water entered houses on Woodland and Devine Street.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindTuckerman$20,000A tree fell onto a police car. No one was injured.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindTuckerman$15,000Multiple trees were blown down and some power lines were snapped.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTuckerman$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindTuckerman$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindTuckerman$5,000Large tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindTuckerman$2,000A large tree fell onto Arkansas 367, blocking the road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Multiple trees were blown down in Tuckerman.
April 2022Flash FloodTuckerman-Social media posts showed roads and yards covered up to several house doors.
March 2021HailTuckerman-A picture of hail bigger than a quarter was shared via social media.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Three inch tree limbs were broken and power lines were down north of Tuckerman.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Trees and power lines were down in Tuckerman.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Winds around 60 mph were estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Power lines were down. Trees were blown down on houses. Some roofs were damaged.
July 2014Funnel CloudTuckerman-A cold air funnel was photographed near Tuckerman.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2007Flash FloodTuckerman-Heavy rains produced flash flooding near Tuckerman. Highway 224 was closed due to high water.
April 2006HailTuckerman-Hail up to the size of baseballs damaged several vehicles, the roofs of some homes and knocked out a number of windows.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-A few trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Thunderstorm winds blew down some power poles.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Trees and power lines were blown down.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 70 mph and blew down some trees.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Some trees were knocked down and several roofs were damaged.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of two barns and knocked down numerous power lines.
December 2012HailTuckerman-no account filed
January 2012HailTuckerman-no account filed
March 2006HailTuckerman-no account filed
April 2005HailTuckerman-no account filed
April 2003HailTuckerman-no account filed
May 2002HailTuckerman-no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-no account filed
May 2000HailTuckerman-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-no account filed
January 1999Tornado (F0)Tuckerman-no account filed
April 1998HailTuckerman-no account filed
June 1997HailTuckerman-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindTuckerman-no account filed
July 1994HailTuckerman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000443 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson CountyAll 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.
  • 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.