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Willie Lamb Post No. 26 American Legion Hut

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Willie Lamb Post No. 26 American Legion Hut is a historic society meeting hall at 205 Alexander Street in Lepanto, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick building with a side-gable roof, and a full-width shed-roof front porch supported by square posts.”

Wikipedia article Willie Lamb Post No. 26 American Legion Hut, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Poinsett County · listed in 2003 · 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.
  • Address. 205 Alexander St., Lepanto, 72354
  • When was it listed? January 2003
  • Category. building
  • Township. Greenwood township
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02001674 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Willie Lamb Post No. 26 American Legion Hut in 1998, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Debris and open burning1

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
30 March 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Poinsett County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Willie Lamb Post No. 26 American Legion Hut: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
G CantrellSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Poinsett County

Storms near this property

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lepanto, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002HailLepanto$3,000,000One hundred were damaged at a Ford dealership in Trumann. Over 2,000 cars in the area were damaged by the hail. Many homes were also damaged. The Trumann schools had at least 100 windows broken.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLepanto$75,000Trees down on roads and houses in Lepanto.
January 1996Tornado (F0)Lepanto$50,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLepanto$10,000Straight line winds knocked a large tree down onto a house causing extensive damage in Lepanto.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLepanto$5,000Trees down across Lepanto.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLepanto$5,000Power poles down on Highway 14 at Mississippi/Poinsett County line.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLepanto$5,000Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 1995HailLepanto$5,000no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLepanto$2,000House damaged.
September 1996Thunderstorm WindLepanto$2,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLepanto$1,000Large tree branches were knocked down.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindLepanto$1,000Part of roof torn off the Lepanto Museum.
March 2008HailLepanto$1,000Penny size hail cracked a picture window and a windshield near Lepanto.
July 1995Tornado (F0)Lepanto$1,000A tornado briefly touched down knocking over a couple of trees.
February 2008HailLepanto$1,000no account filed
March 1996HailLepanto$1,000no account filed
March 2002HailLepanto$750no account filed
May 1998HailLepanto$750no account filed
January 1999HailLepanto$100no account filed
May 1998HailLepanto$50no account filed
April 1998HailLepanto$50no account filed
February 2001HailLepanto$10no account filed
July 1998HailLepanto$10no account filed
October 2022HailLepanto-Measured hail of 2.00 inches fell in Lepanto.
May 2020HailLepanto-Hail up to the size of quarters fell just southeast of Lepanto.
March 2016HailLepanto-Quarter size hail fell in Lepanto.
January 2010HailLepanto-Pea to penny size hail fell in LePanto.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLepanto-Straight line winds knocked down tree limbs and power lines in Lepanto. In addition, a portion of a fence was blown down.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLepanto-Straight line winds knocked down several tree limbs in Lepanto.
May 2025HailLepanto-no account filed
May 2021HailLepanto-no account filed
July 2009HailLepanto-no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindLepanto-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

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001674 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Poinsett CountyAll 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.
  • 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.