Monette Water Tower

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Monette Water Tower is a historic structure located at the junction of Arkansas Highway 139 and Texie Avenue in Monette, Arkansas. It was built in 1936 by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company in conjunction with the Public Works Administration as part of a project to improve the area's water supply.”
Wikipedia article Monette Water Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Craighead County · listed in 2008 · 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. SW. corner Jct. of AR 139 & Texie Ave., Monette, 72447
When was it listed? January 2008
Category. structure
Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
Township. Buffalo township
National Register reference number. 07001424 - 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 Monette Water Tower 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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
1 October 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 January 2014	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BEAR PEN

Every fire recorded in Craighead County

Storms near this property

22 since 1994

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Monette	$30,000	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.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	$18,000	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.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	$15,000	A tin roof was blown off a vacant building. A home lost shingles.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	$15,000	Some shingles were blown off a few homes. Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	$10,000	Several power lines and large trees were blown down.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	$10,000	A storage building was blown down.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	$5,000	Power pole and power lines down.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	$5,000	Straight line winds knocked a tree onto a house in Monette.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	$5,000	Several power lines were blown down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	$5,000	Some power lines were blown down.
April 2007	Hail	Monette	$1,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	$500	Thunderstorm winds downed some tree limbs.
May 1999	Hail	Monette	$100	no account filed
February 2005	Hail	Monette	$60	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Monette	$10	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Monette	-	Dime to quarter-sized hail fell in Monette.
May 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Monette	-	Storm spotters reported a weak tornado in a field south of Monette. No damage was reported.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Monette	-	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.
June 1994	Hail	Monette	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some tree limbs.
May 2021	Hail	Monette	-	no account filed
March 2020	Hail	Monette	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Monette	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Craighead 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
First National Bank Building	0.1 miles	2008
Craighead County Road 513C Bridge	4.8 miles	1995
St. Francis River Bridge	6.5 miles	1990
St. Francis River Bridge	7.1 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001424 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Craighead County	All 25 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.