Built in 1967. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
From the record
“The Clay County Courthouse, Eastern District is located at Courthouse Square in the center of Piggott, one of two county seats of Clay County, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of concrete with brick facing.”
Wikipedia article Clay County Courthouse, Eastern District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1967.
National Register reference number. 100002945 - 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 Clay County Courthouse, Eastern District
in 1999, burning about 14 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
Arson/incendiarism
1
Smoking
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 federal mineral resources record lists
20 workings within 5 miles of Clay County Courthouse, Eastern District: 15 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Piggott, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 26 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 6 flash flood, 2 heavy rain.
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.
Several businesses were damaged. The roof of a gas company building was blown off. Several trees fell on some houses. Several homes also had shingles blown off. An airplane was damaged at the Campbell Airport. Several telephone polls were knocked down.
Survey teams found substantial wind damage to trees and a few structures in the community of Piggott. Tree damage was relatively widespread, with numerous uprooted and downed trees. Minor structural damage and a few downed utility lines were also noted. The damage swath was approximately one mile wide, mainly affecting the northern side of town, with trees and debris blown to the southeast, consistent with an intense rear flank downdraft. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at around 80 mph.
Heavy rain produced a drainage canal to rise and begin flooding the area near Margaret Street in Piggott. Water nearly flooded a few homes. Margaret Street was closed as a result.
Straight line winds caused damage in downtown Piggott. Most of the damage occurred along South Front Street where a portion of the roof of the former Mohawk Pizza building was lifted from the structure and propelled across the tops of several nearby businesses. The mass of tin roofing and rafters was blown loose and across the top of the former cable office at the corner of South Front and West Court. The section then blew across the street and destroyed a power pole. The roof section then blew up and over the buildings in the next block north. Damage was sustained to the roofs of the BRAD Food Pantry, Front Street Pizza, Edmunds Heating and Cooling and Apex Glass. The twisted mass of roofing materials then came to rest at the corner of South Front and West Main streets. A storage barn was also destroyed at the rear of the city-owned building that formerly housed Print City. The roof of the local Subway was also heavily damaged. There was also damage to the roof of an unoccupied house on South Garfield. Around Piggott several privacy fences were blown down while siding and minor roof damage was common.
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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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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