Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
From the record
“Lee's Chapel Church and Masonic Hall is a historic Masonic building in rural northern Independence County, Arkansas, US. It is located on Sandtown Road, about 8 miles (13 km) east of Cushman.”
Wikipedia article Lee's Chapel Church and Masonic Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Independence County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 01000482 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
177 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Lee's Chapel Church and Masonic Hall
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,498 acres in total. None started naturally. 87 were 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
Arson/incendiarism
87
Debris and open burning
45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
42
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
97 workings within 5 miles of Lee's Chapel Church and Masonic Hall: 70 past producers, 13 unknowns, 9 prospects, 3 occurrences.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Limestone, General, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cushman, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 flash flood, 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood.
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.
Flash flooding struck several parts of Independence County, making numerous water rescues necessary. At least two feet of water covered Arkansas 233 at Moorefield, a mudslide occurred on Arkansas 25 near Brock Mountain, a car was under water at a convenience store in Pfeiffer, and a bridge was under water between Batesville and Moorefield on Arkansas 25 when a creek overflowed. County roads and bridges had considerable damage. A number of houses were damaged by floodwaters.
There was considerable damage to county roads and bridges. For the 24-hour period ending at 7 AM on the 31st, Batesville Lock and Dam measured 4.26 inches of rain. At the Batesville airport, rainfall on the 31st measured 6.25 inches.
Lightning struck a house on Lightning Ridge Road. The resulting fire burned the house to the ground, leaving only one garage door standing. Between 6:30 and 8:00 PM CDT, about 1500 lightning strikes were recorded in Independence County.
Numerous roads were flooded. Four people had to be rescued from a vehicle that was washed off a roadway. The Batesville Motor Speedway grounds were cleared with the help of tow trucks.
Flash flooding was reported around Desha and in the southwestern part of the county. Power outages occurred and several roads were under water. A school bus was trapped by high water on Pine Grove Road.
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
2 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.
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.
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