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Magnolia Petroleum Company Filling Station

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Magnolia Petroleum Company Filling Station is a historic automotive service station building at Larch and 1st Streets in Kingsland, Arkansas. It is a small single-story masonry building, built of red and buff brick and covered by a gabled roof.”

Wikipedia article Magnolia Petroleum Company Filling Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Cleveland County · listed in 2019 · category: Building · built in 1930.

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. SW of intersection of Larch & 1st Sts., Kingsland, 71652
  • When was it listed? January 2019
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
  • Township. Kingsland township
  • When was it built? 1930
  • National Register reference number. 100003325 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

57 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Magnolia Petroleum Company Filling Station between 1999 and 2020, burning about 612 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2005Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Cleveland 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 Magnolia Petroleum Company Filling Station: 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleveland County

Storms near this property

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingsland, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
January 2012Tornado (EF2)Kingsland$100,000This tornado exited Dallas County north of the Fordyce airport and entered Cleveland County west-northwest of Kingsland. In Cleveland County, the tornado destroyed a church that had stood since 1852. A mobile home was destroyed, with a mattress hung up in a tree. Another mobile home had its roof taken off. Hundreds of trees were blown down. The tornado ended near the Saline River, in the Channings Ferry area.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindKingsland$15,000Numerous trees were down in Kingsland along U.S. Highway 79.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindKingsland$5,000Trees were blown down.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindKingsland$5,000Trees were blown down.
July 2007Flash FloodKingsland$5,000Heavy rains damaged roads around Kingsland. Cross Road suffered substantial damage.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindKingsland-Multiple trees were blown across Arkansas Highway 8 around Moro Creek.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindKingsland-Trees were down at Kingsland.
April 2018Flash FloodKingsland-Arkansas Hwy 189 was closed to due flash flooding.
March 2014HailKingsland-Hail up to golf ball size broke car windows.
August 2012Heavy RainKingsland-Rainfall measured 6.95 inches in 31 hours.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindKingsland-Power lines were down on U.S. Highway 79 outside of Kingsland.
September 2008Heavy RainKingsland-Approximately 9 inches of rain fell.
July 2007Flash FloodKingsland-Water was reported over several roads. Flood waters covered parts of Cross Road north of Kingsland.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindKingsland-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees along Highway 79.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKingsland-Several large trees were knocked down.
June 2003Flash FloodKingsland-Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding around Kingsland. Several county roads were flooded for a short period of time.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindKingsland-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindKingsland-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindKingsland-Thunderstorm winds downed a number of trees and large limbs in and around Kingsland.
March 2014HailKingsland-no account filed
February 2009HailKingsland-no account filed
December 2002HailKingsland-no account filed
December 2002HailKingsland-no account filed
March 2001HailKingsland-no account filed
February 2000HailKingsland-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindKingsland-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindKingsland-no account filed
May 1999HailKingsland-no account filed
July 1998HailKingsland-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindKingsland-no account filed
July 1998HailKingsland-no account filed
October 1998Thunderstorm WindKingsland-no account filed
March 1996HailKingsland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleveland 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Old US 79, Kingsland Segment0.7 miles2005
Marks' Mills Battlefield Park5.7 miles1970
Barnett-Attwood House7.0 miles1977
Attwood-Hopson House7.5 miles1994
New Edinburg Commercial Historic District7.6 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100003325 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cleveland CountyAll 15 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.