Lepanto Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Lepanto Commercial Historic District encompasses the traditional commercial heart of the small city of Lepanto, Arkansas. The district includes one block of Greenwood Avenue between Berry and Holmes Streets, and portions of two more blocks at either end, as well as two blocks of Berry Street, with a few buildings on adjacent streets.”
Wikipedia article Lepanto Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Poinsett County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Holmes St., Little R., Dewey St. & Alexander Ave., Lepanto, 72354
When was it listed? September 2009
Category. district
Township. Greenwood township
National Register reference number. 09000743 - 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 Lepanto Commercial Historic District 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 burning	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
30 March 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not 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 Lepanto Commercial Historic District: 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
	G Cantrell	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

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

5 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
Willie Lamb Post No. 26 American Legion Hut	0.3 miles	2003
Rivervale Inverted Siphons	3.9 miles	1991
Marked Tree Lock and Siphons	6.0 miles	1988
Marked Tree Commercial Historic District	7.7 miles	2009
Highway A-7, Bridges Historic District	7.8 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000743 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Poinsett County	All 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.