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Photograph of R.L. Leach Grocery Store
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R.L. Leach Grocery Store

Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“Leach Grocery Store is a historic commercial building on Dutch Mills Road in Dutch Mills, Arkansas. Built about 1925, it is a single-story structure with a gabled roof and exterior finished in novelty siding.”

Wikipedia article R.L. Leach Grocery Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1925.

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. Leach, R.L., Grocery Store - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. W side of Dutch Mills Rd., 175 ft. from Cty. Rd. 418, Dutch Mills, 72744
  • When was it listed? January 2018
  • Category. building
  • Township. Dutch Mills township
  • When was it built? 1925
  • National Register reference number. 100002013 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of R.L. Leach Grocery Store between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,325 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism28
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30463
5 September 2000Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30542
26 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30446
26 August 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresCherokee Nation TribeOLD PINEY
26 August 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of R.L. Leach Grocery Store: 9 past producers. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dutch Mills, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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
October 1993HailDutch Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Evansville-Dutch Mills Road Bridge0.9 miles2008
Bethlehem Cemetery1.9 miles2000
Twin Bridges Historic District2.1 miles1994
Morrow Farmstead3.3 miles2021
Pyeatte Mill Site5.2 miles1982
Moore House5.5 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100002013 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 160 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.