Sink-Crumb Post No. 72 American Legion Hut

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Sink-Crumb Post No. 72 American Legion Hut is a historic American Legion hall at Second and Cherry Streets in Knobel, Arkansas. It is a single-story cypress log structure, with a corrugated tin roof, a Rustic form that was typical of Legion halls of the 1930s.”
Wikipedia article Sink-Crumb Post No. 72 American Legion Hut, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2008 · 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. NE. corner of 2nd and Cherry Sts., Knobel, 72435
When was it listed? September 2008
Category. building
Township. Cache-Wilson township
National Register reference number. 08000934 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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 Sink-Crumb Post No. 72 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	C Thomas Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knobel, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 7 hail, 4 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
February 2018	Tornado (EF2)	Knobel	1 killed, $500,000	The one fatality was east of Knobel Arkansas near the intersection of Highway 90 and Highway 135 in a mobile home. A few homes, trees and power poles were damaged as the tornado tracked toward the St. Francis River. The path was intermittent. The tornado continued into Dunklin County.
January 1999	Tornado (F4)	Knobel	$1,000,000	The tornado started southeast of Knobel and tracked northeast. The most serious damage occurred early in the life of the tornado. Two homes were destroyed on County Road 238. Several other homes were damaged. Two trailer trucks were rolled over. As the tornado continued east it gradually diminished in intensity. Several trees and power lines were knocked down along the way.
March 2025	Tornado (EF2)	Knobel	$250,000	The tornado developed just east of Knobel, crossing Highway 90 and snapping several power poles. This tornado continued to track northeast, producing minor tree damage south and east of County Road 250. As the tornado approached the Walnut Grove community, it began to widen and intensify. Several outbuildings were destroyed at the intersection of County Road 250 and Highway 135. Eight wooden power poles were snapped along Highway 135. Just to the east of Highway 135, a large metal building structure was destroyed, a steel-reinforced awning was lifted and tossed, and several pieces of heavy farm machinery were overturned. The tornado gradually weakened as it moved northeast across open farmland, producing only sporadic, minor tree damage. A generator and pump were damaged just northwest of Hickoria with the tornado lifting near County Road 245. Peak winds were estimated at 135 mph.
April 2006	Hail	Knobel	$65,000	no account filed
January 1999	Tornado (F0)	Knobel	$5,000	The tornado started east of Knobel and continued northeast. The tornado may have come up and down several times. One home had damage to its roof and porch south of the town of Walnut Grove.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Knobel	$2,000	Straight line winds knocked down power lines on Highway 90, west of Highway 135, near Knobel.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Knobel	$1,000	Straight line winds blew down some trees near Knobel.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Knobel	-	Portions of AR HWY 90 were closed due to high water.
June 2023	Hail	Knobel	-	Quarter-size hail near Knobel.
June 2023	Hail	Knobel	-	Half dollar size hail fell at the intersection of Highway 90 and Highway 135.
March 2025	Hail	Knobel	-	no account filed
April 2021	Hail	Knobel	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Knobel	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Knobel	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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

3 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
Clay County Courthouse, Western District	5.8 miles	2018
Sheeks House	5.8 miles	1975
Oliver House	6.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000934 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay County	All 19 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.
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.