Photograph of Dyess — Photograph by Dr. Blazer, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dyess Colony Center

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Dyess is a town in Mississippi County, Arkansas, which was founded as Dyess Colony in 1934 by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration as part of the Roosevelt administration's agricultural relief and rehabilitation program. It was the largest agrarian community established by the Federal Government during the Great Depression.”
Wikipedia article Dyess, Arkansas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 1976 · category: District · built in 1934.

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

The listing

Address. AR 297, Dyess, 72330
When was it listed? January 1976
Category. district
Township. Dyess township
When was it built? 1934
National Register reference number. 76000435 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dyess, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood, 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
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyess	$25,000	A trailer was blown down.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyess	$15,000	The roof was torn off a mobile home and trees were knocked down in Dyess. A center pivot was flipped over and siding was torn off the side of a house.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyess	$15,000	Two metal barns were destroyed. Several windows were broken. Several large trees were uprooted.
March 2008	Hail	Dyess	$1,000	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Dyess	$10	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Dyess	$10	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Dyess	$10	no account filed
February 2025	Flash Flood	Dyess	-	Flooded roadways in areas near Dyess, Arkansas.
February 2019	Flood	Dyess	-	County road 924 closed due to flooding.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyess	-	Straight line winds knocked down power poles on County Road 940 just east of Dyess.

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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
	Delta Valley & Southern Railway Locomotive #50	7.7 miles	2007
	Garden Point Cemetery	7.8 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000435 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mississippi County	All 40 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.