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Bunch-Walton Post #22 American Legion Hut

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Bunch-Walton Post No. 22 American Legion Hut is a historic social club meeting hall at 201 Legion Street in Clarksville, Arkansas. It is architecturally unique in the community, built out of native stone in the manner of a Norman castle.”
Wikipedia article Bunch-Walton Post No. 22 American Legion Hut, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 2007 · 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.
Listed as. Bunch--Walton Post #22 American Legion Hut - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 201 Legion St., Clarksville, 72830
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. building
Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
Township. Spadra 4 township
National Register reference number. 06001269 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

962 words

This property stands in Spadra 2 Township. Johnson County, Arkansas, the First Hundred Years, published 1921 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Spadra 2 Township - 962 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

91 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Bunch-Walton Post #22 American Legion Hut between 1996 and 2020, burning about 434 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bunch-Walton Post #22 American Legion Hut: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Johnson County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Eureka Brick Co. Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

60 of 153 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarksville, the town this property stands in, in 153 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 81 thunderstorm wind, 51 hail, 13 flash flood, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$125,000	Several homes were damaged, and trees and power lines were blown down. Two tractor-trailers were blown onto their sides on Interstate 40.
October 2007	Lightning	Clarksville	$125,000	A fire occurred at the U.S. Forest Service Pleasant Hill District office of the Ozark National Forest. Lightning struck a radio tower and apparently traveled down the tower to a Forest Service office building. The building and equipment inside were destroyed. Siding was melted on an adjacent building.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$100,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines. A few of the trees landed on houses.
September 2010	Flash Flood	Clarksville	$100,000	Flooding occurred on Arkansas Highways 352 and 103, on Johnson County Roads 3149, 3151, 3355, 3521, 3341, 3315, 3390, and 3329, and on several streets in Clarksville. Heavy rain caused water to enter a house on Arkansas Highway 352 near Horsehead Creek.
April 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Clarksville	$50,000	A weak tornado tore part of the roof off a house and caused shingle damage to a few additional roofs, blew the roof off a farm shed, took tin off the roofs of two turkey houses and one chicken house, broke off a couple of power poles, and blew down several dozen trees.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree and damaged a storage building roof at a processing plant.
November 1994	Tornado (F0)	Clarksville	$50,000	An F0 tornado touched down briefly 3 miles east of Clarksville. The tornado damaged two chicken houses.
November 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$25,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$25,000	Trees were down at Arkansas Highway 109, U.S. Highway 64 and along Arkansas Highway 21.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$25,000	Trees were uprooted in the area.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$25,000	Trees were down in the area.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$15,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in Clarksville.
January 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$10,000	Trees, outbuildings, and a carport were down or damaged near the community of Woodland, which is northwest of Clarksville.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$10,000	Several trees were down in Clarksville. Trees were down on Poplar Street and U.S. Highway 64 west of Clarksville.
October 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$10,000	A few trees and power lines were down.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$5,000	Several trees were blown down in Clarksville.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$5,000	Some trees were blown down.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$5,000	A few trees were blown down near Ludwig.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$5,000	Severe thunderstorm winds damaged the roof and siding of a house 5 miles north of Clarksville. Several trees were also blown down.
August 1998	Lightning	Clarksville	$5,000	no account filed
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$2,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$500	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	$300	A line of thunderstorms blew down a large sign at Clarksville High School.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	A tree fell onto a house in the town of Clarksville.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Clarksville	-	Water covered the intersection of Cherry Street and Cravens Street near Spadra Creek in the town of Clarksville.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Power lines were blown down onto Rogers Street in the city of Clarksville.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Multiple trees were blown down near the city of Clarksville.
March 2023	Heavy Rain	Clarksville	-	Widespread street flooding was observed in and around Clarksville. Rainfall was measured at 6.50 inches in Clarksville.
March 2023	Flash Flood	Clarksville	-	At least one house was flooded, some bridges were underwater, and multiple roadways were flooded across the county.
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	A few trees were blown down in Clarksville.
April 2021	Flash Flood	Clarksville	-	Highway 64 was closed due to high water over the road. Two swift water rescues occurred, one on Hwy. 359 near Piney Creek, and the other on Hwy. 164 near Horsehead Creek.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported.
April 2020	Hail	Clarksville	-	Nickel size hail was reported by spotters.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	A wind gust of 60 mph was estimated at Clarksville.
September 2019	Flash Flood	Clarksville	-	Street flooding occurred in Clarksville.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	A tree was blown down.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Clarksville	-	Numerous roads were inundated in the county including county roads 3311, 3411, 3451, and 3330. Portions of Hwys. 103 and 352 were also closed. The 911 center indicated the fire department continued closing roads affected by high water at the time of the report.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	The top half of a tree was reported to have fallen on a house.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Limbs were reported down in the city of Clarksville.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	A tree was blown down.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Trees were downed in several areas of the county.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Clarksville	-	We received reports of cars underwater at East Cherry Street and Millwood Road on the east side of Clarksville.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Trees were down around Clarksville.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Several trees were reported down throughout Johnson County with estimated wind speeds of 60-65 mph.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Trees and power lines were blown down over the southern half of the country.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	A few trees were reported down along U.S. Highway 64.
October 2014	Hail	Clarksville	-	Hail to at least the size of quarters fell in Clarksville.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Several outbuildings were damaged.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Trees were down and there were power outages across the county.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Two residents have damage to them. A chicken house and a barn have damage. Some businesses in Clarksville obtained damage. Half of Johnson County is without power.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Trees were reported down.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Trees were blown down in an area from 4 miles north of Clarksville to near Ozone.
February 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house that was under construction.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged a large storage building.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Several large trees were blown down.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Thunderstorm winds caused damage to at least 30 homes and several businesses in town. Mostly roof damage was noted.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Clarksville	-	Heavy rains flooded several businesses.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Several large trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dunlap House	0.1 miles	1982
McKennon House	0.2 miles	1982
Johnson County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1991
Capt. Archibald S. McKennon House	0.4 miles	1976
First Presbyterian Church	0.5 miles	1991
Clarksville Commercial Historic District	0.5 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001269 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson County	All 35 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.