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Photograph of Pinkston-Mays Store Building
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Pinkston-Mays Store Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Pinkston-Mays Store Building is a historic commercial building at 107-109 Jackson Street in Lowell, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building with a flat roof, and is divided into two storefronts, separated by a stairway leading to the second floor.”

Wikipedia article Pinkston-Mays Store Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1988 · 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.
  • Listed as. Pinkston--Mays Store Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 107-109 Lackston St., Lowell, 72745
  • When was it listed? January 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Benton County MRA
  • Township. Township 1
  • National Register reference number. 87002367 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Pinkston-Mays Store Building between 2001 and 2018, burning about 169 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBENTON 232
19 July 2012Natural22 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBEN16095542
9 March 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

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 Pinkston-Mays Store Building: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowell, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 31 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 1995Thunderstorm WindLowell1 hurt, $3,500,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLowell$150,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged homes, destroyed outbuildings, blew down power poles, and uprooted trees in a broad swath from near Lowell to several miles east of Lowell.
April 2026HailLowell$50,000Hail up to two inches in diameter damaged homes and vehicles.
May 2021HailLowell$50,000Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles, homes, and businesses in Springdale.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindLowell$40,000Strong thunderstorm wind severely damaged the roof of a mobile home, destroyed portable sheds, broke a large glass window of a business, damaged the roofs of homes, snapped large tree limbs, and blew down power lines.
April 2026HailLowell$30,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
May 2021HailLowell$25,000Ping pong ball size hail damage vehicles, homes, and businesses near Springdale.
May 2011HailLowell$25,000no account filed
May 2009HailLowell$25,000no account filed
October 2009Flash FloodLowell$20,000Several roads were flooded and closed near Lowell. Flood water damaged 2 homes.
March 2015HailLowell$20,000no account filed
March 2015HailLowell$20,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLowell$10,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous large tree limbs, power poles, and power lines across town.
March 2015HailLowell$10,000no account filed
March 2015HailLowell$10,000no account filed
March 2015HailLowell$10,000no account filed
July 2018HailLowell$5,000no account filed
March 2015HailLowell$5,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLowell$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs and blew down power lines in Lowell.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLowell$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLowell$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down. The tree fell on power lines.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLowell$1,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLowell$500Several trees were blown down east of Lowell.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLowell$100Thunderstorm winds blew trees down onto a road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a road in northwest Lowell.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and snapped large tree limbs in the Bethel Heights area.
March 2015Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees in Bethel Heights.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped or uprooted several trees.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLowell-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs onto the roadway.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindLowell-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLowell-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees.
April 2026HailLowell-no account filed
April 2025HailLowell-no account filed
October 2022HailLowell-no account filed
July 2018HailLowell-no account filed
July 2018HailLowell-no account filed
March 2015HailLowell-no account filed
March 2015HailLowell-no account filed
March 2015HailLowell-no account filed
October 2014HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
April 2011HailLowell-no account filed
September 2006HailLowell-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLowell-no account filed
April 1999HailLowell-no account filed
May 1995HailLowell-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLowell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Green Barn0.4 miles1988
Springfield to Fayetteville Road-Cross Hollow Segment0.9 miles2005
McCleod House2.0 miles1988
Beasley Homestead2.6 miles1988
Monte Ne3.7 miles1978
Mt. Hebron M.E. Church South and Cemetery3.8 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87002367 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton CountyAll 162 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.