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Mississippi County Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Mississippi County Jail was a historic county jail building in Osceola, Arkansas. It was a three-story brick structure, six bays wide, with entrances at the outer two bays, which projected slightly and were set off from the central portion by brick pilasters and a decorative parapet at the roof line.”

Wikipedia article Mississippi County Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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

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. 300 S. Poplar St., Osceola, 72370
  • When was it listed? August 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Osceola MRA
  • Township. Monroe township
  • National Register reference number. 87001356 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mississippi County Jail in 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTennessee Division of ForestryYANKEE BAR FIRE

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this property

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osceola, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2001Thunderstorm WindOsceola$75,000A hotel had its metal roof torn off and had its doors blown off. Several cars were damaged near the hotel. One business had its plate glass window demolished. Another business had two buildings damaged. Several power lines and power poles were blown down.
June 2025Flash FloodOsceola$50,000Some roads were flooded in Osceola. A home was inundated with two feet of water.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindOsceola$10,000Six power poles and some trees were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindOsceola$10,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindOsceola$10,000An abandoned 500-foot tall commercial television tower collapsed due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2008HailOsceola$8,000no account filed
March 2023Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000Power poles were broken at the intersection of Highway 61 and Highway 325.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000Straight line winds knocked down power lines in Osceola.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000A roof was blown off of a trailer home.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000A couple of houses were damaged. Some trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines. Two buildings received roof and other structural damage.
January 2008HailOsceola$5,000no account filed
May 2006HailOsceola$5,000no account filed
March 2005Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOsceola$5,000no account filed
January 2008HailOsceola$3,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOsceola$2,000A few trees were knocked down across the road.
April 1995Tornado (F0)Osceola$2,000A tornado touched down blowing several trees down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOsceola$2,000A few trees were blown down across a road.
May 2003Flash FloodOsceola$1,000Three inches of rain fell in one hour. A few roads were flooded with at least 6 inches of water on them.
April 2006HailOsceola$1,000no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindOsceola$500Large tree blown down in church parking lot.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindOsceola$500Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
June 1998HailOsceola$150Hail ranging from nickel to quarter size fell in Osceola.
March 2005HailOsceola$110no account filed
July 1996HailOsceola$100no account filed
May 1995HailOsceola$100no account filed
April 2004HailOsceola$60no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindOsceola-Metal roof blown off a building on West Keiser Ave in Osceola.
April 2022HailOsceola-Hail measured at 2 inches in Osceola.
October 2022HailOsceola-Measured hail of 1.00 inch fell at the Osceola Police Headquarters.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindOsceola-Trees damaged and power lines down near Mockingbird Lane.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOsceola-Straight line winds knocked down several trees in Osceola.
July 2009Flash FloodOsceola-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the vicinity of Osceola. Some back roads became impassable. A couple of county employees were unable to leave their houses in Osceola due to flooding.
June 1994HailOsceola-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and telephone poles.
April 2020HailOsceola-no account filed
April 2020HailOsceola-no account filed
May 2018HailOsceola-no account filed
May 2012HailOsceola-no account filed

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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hale Avenue Historic Districtunder 500 feet1987
Hale Avenue Historic District (Boundary Increase)under 500 feet2003
Florida Brothers Building0.1 miles1987
Osceola Times Building0.1 miles1987
Mississippi County Courthouse0.1 miles1978
Hale Avenue Historic District Boundary Increase II0.1 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001356 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mississippi CountyAll 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.