Tyronza Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Tyronza Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic church building at 129 Church Street in Tyronza, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of orange brick laid on a raised basement.”
Wikipedia article Tyronza Methodist Episcopal Church, South, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Poinsett County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 161 Church St., Tyronza, 72386
When was it listed? May 2015
Category. building
Township. Tyronza township
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 15000260 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tyronza Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Easton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	G Cantrell	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Poinsett County

Storms near this property

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tyronza, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
October 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Tyronza	3 hurt, $350,000	This was a short track tornado that touched down in the southwest part of Tyronza and tracked northeast. There was straight line wind damage surrounding the tornado. Primarily damage to a convenience store and elementary school. Several outbuildings were destroyed and numerous trees down.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyronza	$30,000	A few power lines were knocked down just south of Tyronza between Interstate 555 and Highway 322. One house south of town lost some siding and had some windows knocked out by a picnic table. Two center pivots irrigation systems were damaged.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyronza	$25,000	Two mobile homes were damaged. Many trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyronza	$20,000	A large tree fell on a mobile home trapping a person.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyronza	$15,000	Several utility poles and numerous trees were knocked down.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyronza	$15,000	Straight line winds toppled a mobile home on Oak Street in Tyronza.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyronza	$10,000	Trees and powerlines down across Tyronza.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyronza	$5,000	Some trees were knocked down.
June 2002	Tornado (F0)	Tyronza	$5,000	The tornado touched down near Tyronza and moved slowly east. Several power poles were knocked down.
April 2006	Hail	Tyronza	$2,500	no account filed
April 1995	Tornado (F0)	Tyronza	$2,000	A tornado briefly touched down knocking down a few trees.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyronza	$1,000	Large tree limbs were knocked down east of Tyronza.
January 2012	Hail	Tyronza	$1,000	Quarter size hail fell in Tyronza.
July 1996	Hail	Tyronza	$1,000	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Tyronza	$10	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Tyronza	$10	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Tyronza	-	Nickel size hail fell at the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum.
October 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Tyronza	-	Straight line winds knocked down a large tree and several large limbs on Highway 118 in the northern part of Tyronza and near Lepanto. One home received roof damage in Tyronza.
May 2023	Hail	Tyronza	-	no account filed
February 2021	Hail	Tyronza	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Tyronza	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Tyronza	-	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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Tyronza Water Tower	under 500 feet	2007
Tyronza Commercial Historic District	under 500 feet	2010
Emrich and Beley Cotton Gin	0.2 miles	2026
Highway A-7, Tyronza Segment	0.4 miles	2009
Highway A-7, Ditch No. 6 Bridge	1.0 miles	2009
Highway A-7, Tyronza Segment	1.6 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000260 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Poinsett County	All 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.
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.