Dyess, AR · Mississippi County

Home inspection in Dyess, Arkansas.

Closer Look Inspectors offers home inspections in Dyess, Mississippi County, Arkansas. Dyess homes are inspected by a local partner in our Arkansas network, and every report is photo-mapped and delivered within 24 hours.

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Why Dyess homes need a local read

Dyess was built in 1934 as a federal farm colony of about 500 families and is the boyhood home of Johnny Cash.

Housing: About 500 small colony farmhouses, five-room whitewashed clapboard houses with two bedrooms and front and back porches, built from 1934; The white-columned administration building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Around town: A wagon-wheel layout with the community center at the hub and numbered roads such as Road 14; The administration building, Dyess School and the Johnny Cash boyhood home museum.

Setting: Rich, swampy bottomland that colonists cleared and drained with ditches.

Water, flooding and moisture in Dyess

Flood history: The January 1937 flood forced residents to evacuate and inspired Johnny Cash's song 'Five Feet High and Rising'.

EPA's Map of Radon Zones places Mississippi County in Zone 3 (predicted average indoor levels below 2 pCi/L). EPA notes that homes vary within any zone, so the map does not predict a single house.

In pictures

Delta and Crowley's Ridge homes.

Illustrative photos of the kinds of homes and conditions found in this area.

Raised home on a slab beside a drainage ditch, summer

Raised home on a slab beside a drainage ditch, autumn

Rice and soybean fields with a farmhouse and grain bins, summer

Rice and soybean fields with a farmhouse and grain bins, autumn

River bottomland home with tall cypress trees nearby, summer

River bottomland home with tall cypress trees nearby, autumn

Brick ranch home on a wooded lot above a clear Ozark river — Home inspection in Dyess, AR

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How was Dyess laid out?

Dyess was planned as a wagon wheel with a community center at the hub, and roads were numbered rather than named. The colony built about 500 small farmhouses for families from the relief rolls.

What were the Dyess colony houses like?

Each was a five-room, whitewashed clapboard house with two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, dining room, and front and back porches. Each had an adjacent barn, privy and chicken coop.

Did Dyess flood?

Residents were evacuated during the flood of January 1937, which inspired Johnny Cash's song 'Five Feet High and Rising.' The land was swampy bottomland that colonists drained with ditches.

Do sinkholes and flood zones affect homes in north and northeast Arkansas?

The Springfield Plateau is underlain by Boone Formation limestone where solution and collapse sinkholes are abundant, and the Salem Plateau has sinkholes in its dolostones. The Mississippi Alluvial Plain is the flattest part of the state with often poorly drained soils. Standard homeowners insurance does not cover flood, so buyers should check a property's FEMA flood zone.

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