Photograph of A.M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump — Photograph by Richard apple, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

A.M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump #2 Engine

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump, located on Route 165 and Post Bayou Lane, near Gillett, Arkansas, in Arkansas County, is a rare surviving example of an early 20th-century pump engine built by the engine manufacturer Fairbanks, Morse & Company. The pumping engine played an important role in productive rice farming in the area, supplying water to flood the fields.”
Wikipedia article A.M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Arkansas County · listed in 2010 · category: Object.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE corner of US 165 and Post Bayou Lane, Gillett, 72055
When was it listed? September 2010
Category. object
Township. Arkansas township
National Register reference number. 10000783 - 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 A.M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump #2 Engine between 1999 and 2004, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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

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
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 March 2004	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Arkansas County

Storms near this property

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gillett, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 5 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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 2008	Flood	Gillett	$500,000	Moderate flooding at the Pendleton stream gage on the Arkansas River occurred for over three days. The crest in April was higher than the March crest, primarily due to the high Mississippi River stages. Property within the levee system, such as hunting and fishing camps, was flooded. The combined lower Arkansas, White, and Mississippi River floodplain contains some exclusive hunting camps and all were flooded by the three rivers within the vast expanse of floodplain. The crest at Pendleton was the highest since May, 1990, and the fourth highest of record.
February 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Gillett	$100,000	The tornado moved from Desha County into Arkansas County about 8.3 miles south-southeast of Gillett. A few homes sustained minor damage, along with several camping trailers. Several sheds and outbuildings were destroyed. A mobile home and several metal shop buildings were also damaged. A number of trees and power lines were also blown down. The tornado eventually dissipated about 6.2 miles south-southeast of Tichnor.
July 2011	Lightning	Gillett	$50,000	Lightning struck two houses in Gillett, starting fires.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	$50,000	Trees, power lines, and power poles were blown down. Some houses suffered roof damage.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	$30,000	Trees were blown down, with some of the trees falling on a house.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	$25,000	Trees and power lines were blown down. Gillett had no electricity.
March 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	$20,000	A shed was blown across a field, a mobile home lost siding, some homes lost shingles, and several trees were uprooted.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	$15,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in the Gillett area.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Gillett	$10,000	Two to three inches of rain caused some street flooding in Gillett. Up to 5 inches of rain fell just southwest of town.
March 1997	Flash Flood	Gillett	$10,000	no account filed
November 1993	Tornado (F0)	Gillett	$5,000	A small F0 tornado touched down four miles east of Gillett. The tornado was only on the ground a few minutes before it dissipated. The only damage that occurred was that a few road signs were blown down.
September 2011	Hail	Gillett	$3,000	Golf ball to tennis ball size hail knocked holes in the vinyl siding of a house.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	$2,000	A couple of power poles were blown down around Gillett.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	-	A 61 mph wind gust was measured from a personal weather station near Gillett.
September 2007	Flash Flood	Gillett	-	Water was over several roads in the Gillett area.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	-	Large tree limbs blown down.
November 2005	Tornado (F1)	Gillett	-	A weak tornado touched down in Arkansas County, roughly 2.8 miles north-northeast of Gillett. Winds were estimated to be 90 mph. The tornado destroyed an old barn, estimated to be at least 100 years old. One outbuilding was destroyed and several others were damaged. Tin was blown off some barn roofs and a few houses had shingles torn off. Hundreds of trees were knocked down or broken off. A few power poles were also knocked down. The tornado dissipated about 5.5 miles southeast of Ethel, near Bear Lake in the White River National Wildlife Refuge.
September 2005	Tornado (F0)	Gillett	-	A weak tornado was spawned in southern Arkansas County roughly 8.5 miles south of Gillett. The tornado moved to the northwest around the remnants of Hurricane Rita. Estimated winds with the tornado were about 60 mph. The tornado caused mostly tree damage in areas close to the Arkansas River levee. The tornado was on the ground for 7 miles before tracking into Jefferson County.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some power lines.
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Gillett	-	A weak tornado touched down over southern Arkansas County and tracked eastward for about 2.9 miles before dissipating. The tornado tracked from west to east just to the north of Highway 144 south of Gillett. The tops of several trees were snapped off along the first mile of the tornado track. Several farm sheds and a utility shed were damaged near the intersection of Highway 144 and U.S. Highway 165. Several large trees were also blown down along with minor roof damage to a house. Just to the east of U.S. Highway 165, another house was damaged and two nearby storage buildings were destroyed. Some trees were blown down, along with several downed power poles.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a power pole.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of a couple of buildings.
May 1997	Hail	Gillett	-	Hail up to quarter size damaged some crops.
April 2011	Funnel Cloud	Gillett	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Gillett	-	no account filed
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Gillett	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Gillett	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillett	-	no account filed
March 1999	Hail	Gillett	-	no account filed
February 1999	Hail	Gillett	-	no account filed
February 1999	Hail	Gillett	-	no account filed
February 1999	Hail	Gillett	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Gillett	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Gillett	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arkansas 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Arkansas Post National Memorial	2.2 miles	1966
	Gillett Jail, Old	5.1 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000783 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arkansas County	All 24 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.