Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
From the record
“The First National Bank Building is a historic bank building at 207 West Drew Avenue in the center of Monette, Arkansas. It is a two-story Classical Revival, built of load-bearing brick and sculptured stone in 1918, and is the most architecturally significant building in the small town.”
Wikipedia article First National Bank Building (Monette, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 25 National Register listings published here for Craighead County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 07001423 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of First National Bank Building
between 1999 and 2014, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Monette, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 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.
A weak tornado briefly touched down along County Road 513, northeast of Black Oak. The tornado moved northeast crossing Highway 18. The tornado lifted southwest of Monette along County Road 506. A pivot irrigation system was flipped over. Two telephone poles were knocked down. A few tree limbs were broken.
Straight line winds blew seven power lines down blocking Highway 18 just east of Monette. A storage building was also blown down. Two mobile homes were damaged as well.
Straight line winds knocked down trees all across Craighead County. In addition, signs were blown off of buildings in Monette. Power poles and power lines were knocked down along Highway 226 near Valley View as well.
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
4 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.
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.
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