Tyronza Water Tower

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Tyronza Water Tower is a historic elevated steel water tower located in Tyronza, Arkansas. It was built in 1935 by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company in conjunction with the Public Works Administration as part of a project to improve the local water supply.”
Wikipedia article Tyronza Water Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Poinsett County · listed in 2007 · 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. NW of jct. of Main St. and Oliver St., Tryonza, 72386
When was it listed? September 2007
Category. structure
Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
Township. Tyronza township
National Register reference number. 07000963 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Tyronza Water Tower in 1998, burning about 1 acre 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

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
30 March 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Poinsett County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tyronza Water Tower: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Easton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	G Cantrell	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Poinsett 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
Tyronza Methodist Episcopal Church, South	under 500 feet	2015
Tyronza Commercial Historic District	0.2 miles	2010
Emrich and Beley Cotton Gin	0.3 miles	2026
Highway A-7, Tyronza Segment	0.4 miles	2009
Highway A-7, Ditch No. 6 Bridge	0.9 miles	2009
Highway A-7, Tyronza Segment	1.6 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000963 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Poinsett County	All 23 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.