Crittenden County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Crittenden County Courthouse is located at 85 Jackson Street in Marion, Arkansas, United States, the county seat of Crittenden County. It is a two-story brick and stone structure, nine bays wide and seven deep, with a dome centered on its otherwise flat roof.”
Wikipedia article Crittenden County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Crittenden County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 85 Jackson St., Marion, 72364
When was it listed? August 1977
Category. building
Township. Jasper township
National Register reference number. 77000251 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Crittenden County Courthouse: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
West Memphis Pit & Plant	Clay	Producer
Carter	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Morrison Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rosebud Island	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Turbyfill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weeks Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this property

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 12 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$150,000	Tree fell on a house in Marion. Trees and powerlines down county wide.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$15,000	The roof of the car wash at a convenience store was blown off and landed against a house. Some power lines and tree were knocked down.
July 1998	Lightning	Marion	$10,000	Three homes and one business caught on fire due to lightning strikes.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$5,000	A few trees were blown down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$5,000	Several trees were blown down.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$5,000	A few signs were blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some power lines.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$2,000	Powerlines were knocked down at Oak and Elm Streets in Marion.
March 2008	Hail	Marion	$2,000	Quarter size hail fell 3 miles west of Interstate 55.
March 2008	Hail	Marion	$2,000	no account filed
May 2003	Flash Flood	Marion	$1,000	Several streets were flooded.
April 1998	Tornado (F0)	Marion	$1,000	A tornado briefly touched down in Marion knocking down a few trees.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$500	A few trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 2001	Hail	Marion	$100	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Marion	$50	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Marion	$50	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Marion	$10	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Marion	$10	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Marion	$10	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Marion	-	Small hail fell near Big Lake Rd and Marion Lake Rd.
March 2023	Flash Flood	Marion	-	There was significant street flooding in a residential area in Marion. Water was approximately 2 to 3 feet deep.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Marion	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Marion and West Memphis. Numerous streets were flooded with water.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Straight line winds knocked down trees and power lines across the Sunset area and the northern part of Marion.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Straight line winds knocked down power lines in Marion. In addition, the winds knocked out the 911 system in West Memphis.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Straight line winds blew numerous trees and power lines down in West Memphis. Vehicle windows at the hospital parking lot in West Memphis were blown out. Trailers were blown over in the vicinity of West Memphis and Marion.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Straight line winds destroyed a small building. A storage building and a few power lines were also damaged.
May 2024	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
February 2023	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crittenden 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
Crittenden County Bank and Trust Company	0.1 miles	1984
Marion Colored High School	0.5 miles	1995
Lawrie House	4.5 miles	1996
Johnson-Portis House	4.5 miles	2017
Hamilton Apartments	4.6 miles	1998
Wilson Power and Light Company Ice Plant	4.7 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000251 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crittenden County	All 17 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.