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One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 2018 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Blytheville Air Force Base Strategic Air Command (SAC) Alert and Weapons Storage Areas Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- Address. 4701 Memorial Drive, Blytheville, 72315
- When was it listed? January 2018
- Category. district
- Township. Chickasawba township
- National Register reference number. 100001999 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Storms near this property
60 of 69 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blytheville, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Lightning | Blytheville | 1 killed | A man was killed by a lightning strike while working on the roof of a building. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. Some roads were blocked for a time by fallen trees. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $40,000 | Several cotton wagons are blown over. A few power poles were snapped. A privacy fence was also blown down. A carport had a wall blown out. Numerous trees were knocked down. One tree fell on a garage. |
| April 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Blytheville | $25,000 | The tornado touched down in the south central part of Blytheville. The main damage was contained in a two-block section. A 60-ton air conditioner until located on the roof of a supermarket was moved. Many large trees were toppled and several residences sustained roof damage. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $20,000 | A tree fell on a house causing significant damage. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $20,000 | One building suffered roof and structural damage. Some trees and power lines were blown down. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $15,000 | Tree down on a truck on County Road 711. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $10,000 | A church had some of its windows blown out. Several trees were knocked down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2007 | Lightning | Blytheville | $7,000 | Lightning struck a tree and power lines on West Walnut Street in Blytheville causing them to fall on a nearby house. Moderate damage was reported to the house, but no injuries were reported. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $7,000 | Straight line winds blew a tree down on a house as well as a few other trees in Blytheville. |
| January 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $5,000 | A non-structural wall located at the back of the Great River Medical Center was blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $5,000 | Some trees were blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $5,000 | Some power lines were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $5,000 | Some trees were knocked down. |
| April 2003 | Flash Flood | Blytheville | $5,000 | Numerous fields were flooded that required replanting. Many streets were also flooded. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $5,000 | Some trees were knocked down. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $5,000 | A light-weight metal carport was blown over. A few trees were knocked down. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $5,000 | A large tree was blown down on top of a car. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $5,000 | Some trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| December 1996 | Lightning | Blytheville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $3,000 | A tree was knocked down on to powerlines on Marr Avenue in Blytheville. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $2,000 | Tree down at the intersection of 10th and Hearn. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Blytheville | $1,500 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Blytheville | $1,500 | no account filed |
| February 2005 | Hail | Blytheville | $1,100 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $1,000 | Large tree uprooted near the intersection of North Franklin and East Moultrie. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $1,000 | Straight line winds knocked down a large tree at Walnut Street and 2nd Street in Blytheville. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $1,000 | Some trees were knocked down 4 miles south of Blytheville. |
| August 2002 | Lightning | Blytheville | $1,000 | A shed was damaged by a fire started by lightning. |
| June 1998 | Flood | Blytheville | $1,000 | Several streets were flooded after nearly 4 inches of rain fell in the area. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Blytheville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Blytheville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Blytheville | $850 | A cotton crop was damaged by hail which ranged in size from quarters to golf ball. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Blytheville | $150 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Blytheville | $100 | Nearly all crops grown between Yarbro and Huffman were totally destroyed by the hail. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Blytheville | $100 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Blytheville | $100 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $100 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Blytheville | $100 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Blytheville | $50 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Blytheville | $50 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| December 1996 | Hail | Blytheville | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | - | Trees down in downtown Blytheville. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | - | Straight-line winds knocked trees down around town. A fence was damaged by a fallen tree. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blytheville | - | A large tree fell on a house. |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blytheville Air Force Base Capehart Housing Historic District | 1.8 miles | 2015 | |
 | West Main Street Residential Historic District | 1.8 miles | 2010 |
 | Blytheville Greyhound Bus Station | 2.1 miles | 1987 |
 | Blytheville Commercial Historic District | 2.2 miles | 2006 |
 | Mississippi County Courthouse, Chickasawba District | 2.2 miles | 1996 |
 | Kress Building | 2.7 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001999 in Record Group 79. |
| Mississippi County | All 40 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.
- 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.