Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
From the record
“The Cotton Plant water tower is a historic elevated steel water tower located in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. It was built in 1935 by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company in conjunction with the Public Works Administration as part of a project to improve the area's water supply.”
Wikipedia article Cotton Plant water tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Woodruff County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure.
Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
Township. Cotton Plant township
National Register reference number. 08000490 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
5 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cotton Plant Water Tower
between 1993 and 2014, burning about 51 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
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
Cotton Plant, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 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 initially touched down 1.8 miles west-southwest of Cotton Plant, tracked through the city of Cotton Plant, and lifted 3.3 miles northeast of Cotton Plant. The tornado damaged the roof of a cotton gin and a large nearby metal building was destroyed. A number of homes suffered damage, mainly due to shingles being blown off and trees falling onto them. Several mobile homes were damaged, including one that was overturned against a tree. The facade of several downtown buildings were torn off. A number of headstones on graves at a local cemetery were overturned.
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
1 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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