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One of 27 National Register listings published here for Drew County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bank of Tillar
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 168 South Railroad St., Tillar, 71670
- When was it listed? May 2022
- Category. building
- Township. Franklin township
- National Register reference number. 100007720 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bank of Tillar between 2001 and 2009, burning about 20 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 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 March 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 November 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
6 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tillar, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tillar | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds moved several cotton trailers. An airplane was moved and an airport hangar was also damaged. Several mobile homes were also moved off their supports slightly. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tillar | $25,000 | Trees were down across the area. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tillar | $2,000 | Trees were blown down onto U.S. 278. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tillar | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Tillar | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Tillar | - | no account filed |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Tillar, Frank, Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South | 0.1 miles | 1997 |
 | Selma Methodist Church | 6.8 miles | 1972 |
 | Taylor Log House and Site | 6.9 miles | 1995 |
 | Selma Rosenwald School | 7.0 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007720 in Record Group 79. |
| Drew County | All 27 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.