The Green Forest Water Tower is a historic

water tower A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a water distribution system, distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection. Water towe ...

, located near the junction of South Springfield and East Second Streets in

Green Forest, Arkansas Green Forest is a city in Carroll County, Arkansas, Carroll County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,972 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Geography Green Forest is located at (36.334924, -93.432655). According to the ...

. It consists of a metal supporting structure with four legs and cross bracing, supporting a water tank with a bowl-shaped bottom, with a water pipe in the center of the structure connecting the tank to the water system. The tank was built in 1937 by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works Company with funding from the

Public Works Administration The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recove ...

. It is the only known surviving PWA-funded tower in Carroll County. The tower was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2007.

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Water towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Towers completed in 1937 Buildings and structures in Carroll County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Arkansas 1937 establishments in Arkansas {{CarrollCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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