Rivervale Inverted Siphons

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Rivervale Inverted Siphons, also known as the Rivervale Tunnel, are a historic flood control project in rural Poinsett County, Arkansas. It is essentially a very large concrete culvert, which channels the water flow of Ditch Number 4 under the Right Hand Chute Little River, into which it would normally drain.”
Wikipedia article Rivervale Inverted Siphons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Poinsett County · listed in 1991 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Just SW of AR 135 across Little R., Rivervale, 72354
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. structure
Township. Greenwood township
National Register reference number. 91000339 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rivervale, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008	Hail	Rivervale	$2,000	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Rivervale	$100	Hail ranged in size from dimes near Lepanto to quarters around Rivervale.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rivervale	-	Damaging straight line winds caused minor roof damage to two businesses and one house within the town of Rivervale. One telephone pole was also knocked down.
May 2021	Hail	Rivervale	-	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

3 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
Lepanto Commercial Historic District	3.9 miles	2009
Willie Lamb Post No. 26 American Legion Hut	4.1 miles	2003
Marked Tree Lock and Siphons	7.8 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000339 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.
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.