De Valls Bluff Waterworks

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The De Valls Bluff Waterworks is a historic public water supply facility at Rumbaugh and Hazel Streets in De Valls Bluff, Arkansas. It contains a 1930s-era elevated steel water tower, which was built in 1936 by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company in conjunction with the Public Works Administration as part of a project to improve the local water supply.”
Wikipedia article De Valls Bluff Waterworks, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Prairie County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure · built in 1936.

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. Jct. of Hazel and Rumbaugh Sts., De Valls Bluff, 72041
When was it listed? September 2007
Category. structure
Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
Township. Watensaw township
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 07000969 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of De Valls Bluff Waterworks between 2000 and 2019, burning about 58 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
16 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 June 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 February 2007	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 October 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this property

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names De Valls Bluff, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
January 2007	Flash Flood	De Valls Bluff	$17,000	Heavy rains produced widespread flash flooding across Prairie County. Numerous secondary roads were impassible for several hours due to high water levels.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	$10,000	Trees were blown down and a large limb fell and landed on a house.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew trees down.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	$2,000	A carport was blown out into a field.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	$2,000	A large tree was down along Arkansas Highway 33.
June 2021	Flash Flood	De Valls Bluff	-	A person that routinely measures rainfall at his home near DeValls Bluff, emptied his rain gage at 4 am CST and noted the gage was overflowing by 7 am CST. His yard and nearby roads flooded very quickly after the rain started. He cannot determine the maximum rainfall, although at least 6 inches of rain fell since 4 am CST.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	A power line was blown down on Highway 33 south of De Valls Bluff blocking all lanes.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	Scattered wind damage was near and around De Valls Bluff. Primary damage was broken power poles.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	A tree was downed on Highway 302 East.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	A tree was downed on Highway 302 East.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	Power lines were blown down.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
April 2018	Hail	De Valls Bluff	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	De Valls Bluff	-	no account filed
February 2000	Hail	De Valls Bluff	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	De Valls Bluff	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	De Valls Bluff	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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
Prairie County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1995
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church	0.2 miles	2009
Castleberry Hotel	0.4 miles	2007
Rock Island Depot	6.6 miles	1987
Kocourek and Son Hardware	6.7 miles	2015
Wingmead	7.7 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000969 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Prairie County	All 15 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.