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Maxie Theatre

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Poinsett County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 136 AR 463 South, Trumann, 72472
  • When was it listed? April 2011
  • Category. building
  • Township. Willis township
  • National Register reference number. 10000933 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

48 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trumann, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Tornado (EF2)Trumann$6,300,000Tornado developed just southwest of Trumann and destroyed about 70 homes and damaged another 100 homes. Several businesses were damaged or destroyed. There was also widespread tree damage. The fire station was also heavily damaged. The worst damage was in the northeast part of Trumann with businesses and homes destroyed. Tornado path ended near the St. Francis River. Peak winds were estimated at 130 mph.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindTrumann$500,000The local high school and elementary school had windows broken. Fifteen police cars were severely damaged. Several trees were blown down.
May 2013Flash FloodTrumann$424,000Approximately five inches of rain fell across northern and western Poinsett County resulting in flash flooding. A few homes and several county roads were flooded. Many of the roads that were flooded were badly damaged and had to be repaired.
May 2009Flash FloodTrumann$250,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Trumann. Twenty four homes were flooded along Mulberry Drive.
May 2011FloodTrumann$200,000Heavy rain during late April into early May caused the St. Francis River to rise to near record levels. The river remained above flood stage through the end of May. Several homes sustained minor damage from the flooding. The city of Payneway had to be evacuated as a result of the flooding. Several roads were closed and/or damaged. Several hundred acres of cropland was flooded.
December 2009Flash FloodTrumann$91,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding around Poinsett County. Numerous roads around the county were closed due to high water including Highways 1, 14, and 69.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindTrumann$60,000Estimated gust. Light poles and trees down in the Trumann area.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindTrumann$50,000Video scoreboard at RMC Stadium in Trumann was knocked down by straight line winds.
July 2002LightningTrumann$50,000The Providence Baptist Church in Trumann was destroyed by a fire started by lightning.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindTrumann$25,000Straight line winds knocked down five power poles in Trumann. A pivot irrigation unit and buildings at a farm store storage compound near the Craighead County border were damaged from the wind. In addtion, a house was hit with a tree in Lepanto.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindTrumann$25,000A house had part of its second floor ripped off. Some trees were knocked down.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindTrumann$21,000Straight line winds knocked down a tree down on two vehicles of a home on a Butterfield street. The family had just pulled in the drive-way when the tree fell on top of their vehicle smashing it. The tree also fell on top of the family's second vehicle causing damage as well. No injuries were reported.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindTrumann$10,000Straight-line winds caused roof damage to a business south of the EF-2 tornado track in Trumann.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindTrumann$5,000Several houses had roof damage. Some trees were blown down.
July 2005LightningTrumann$5,000A home was damaged by a fire started by lightning.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindTrumann$5,000Some trees were blown down.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindTrumann$5,000A few trees were blown down.
May 1995HailTrumann$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTrumann$3,000A tree and flag pole were knocked down in Trumann.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTrumann$2,000A tree was knocked down on Freer Road.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindTrumann$2,000A few power lines were blown down.
October 2009Flash FloodTrumann$1,000More than two miles of Arkansas Highway 69 had to be closed due to flooding.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindTrumann$1,000Straight line winds blew some trees down 2 miles south of Trumann.
May 2006HailTrumann$1,000no account filed
August 2006HailTrumann$1,000no account filed
March 1997HailTrumann$500no account filed
August 2000HailTrumann$50no account filed
March 2002HailTrumann$10no account filed
April 1998HailTrumann$10no account filed
March 1997HailTrumann$10no account filed
March 2016Flash FloodTrumann-Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Trumann. Ozark Street was closed due to high water.
July 2014Flash FloodTrumann-Two thunderstorms merged together over Trumann. As a result, the intersection of West Main Street and North Pine Avenue was covered with seven inches of water.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindTrumann-Straight line winds knocked down a couple of trees in Trumann.
June 2013HailTrumann-Quarter size hail fell near Trumann.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindTrumann-Straight line winds knocked down power lines in Trumann.
May 2011Flash FloodTrumann-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Trumann. Highway 69 was closed in town as a result of high water.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindTrumann-Straight line winds knocked down trees and power lines in Trumann.
April 2009HailTrumann-Penny size hail fell along Highway 463 just south of Bay on the Craighead/Poinsett County line.
June 2009Flash FloodTrumann-Heavy rain produced flash flooding along creeks and streams around Trumann. Several streets were flooded as a result.
March 2002Tornado (F0)Trumann-A tornado briefly touched down in an open field producing very little damage.
April 2021HailTrumann-no account filed
May 2020HailTrumann-no account filed
April 2017HailTrumann-no account filed
April 2011HailTrumann-no account filed
May 2011HailTrumann-no account filed
April 2011HailTrumann-no account filed
April 2009HailTrumann-no account filed
June 2009HailTrumann-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Poinsett 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

4 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Poinsett Community Club0.2 miles1986
Poinsett Lumber and Manufacturing Company Manager's House0.3 miles2010
Judd Hill Cotton Gin4.8 miles2005
Marked Tree Lock and Siphons7.7 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000933 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Poinsett CountyAll 23 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.