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One of 28 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
WPA Privy
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Southwest of the East Hanson Street and Bright Loop intersection, Pyatt, 72672
- When was it listed? September 2024
- Category. building
- Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
- Township. Marion County township
- National Register reference number. 100010838 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
71 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of WPA Privy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,283 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 were 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 | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 90 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 2012 | Natural | 27 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 27 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of WPA Privy: 10 unknowns, 9 occurrences, 6 past producers, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowery Quarry-Eros Location | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Governor Eagle | Lead, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Lead, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Crooked Creek Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Lowery | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Blankenship Prospect | Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Coker Hollow Mine | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Madison Mine | Lead | Unknown |
Storms near this property
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pyatt, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Pyatt | - | Water was reported to be over Highway 62 west of Yellville. |
| January 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyatt | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and damaged the roofs of several homes near Pyatt. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyatt | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Pyatt | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Pyatt | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Pyatt | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyatt | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyatt | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Pyatt | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyatt | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Pyatt | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pyatt | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Pyatt | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Pyatt | - | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Crooked Creek Bridge | 0.4 miles | 2010 |
| US 62 Bridge over Crooked Creek | 0.6 miles | 2000 | |
 | Pyatt School Building | 0.7 miles | 1992 |
 | Pyatt Tunnel | 1.2 miles | 2007 |
| Pyatt Tunnel | 1.4 miles | 2007 |
 | Eros School Building | 4.9 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010838 in Record Group 79. |
| Marion County | All 28 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.
- 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.