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One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wilson Motor Company
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 42 Cortez Kennedy Ave., Wilson, 72395
- When was it listed? January 2019
- Category. building
- Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
- Township. Golden Lake township
- National Register reference number. 100003332 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Storms near this property
17 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilson, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $10,000 | Straight line winds blew trees down in Wilson. A broadcast booth of a football stadium was blown down and an equipment barn was destroyed as well. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $10,000 | Several power lines and a large tree were blown down. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | Multiple large trees down in Wilson. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | Several trees were knocked down in the Wilson area. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | Trees were knocked down across the railroad tracks in Wilson. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | A few trees were knocked down. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and telephone poles. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $3,000 | Trees down across Hwy 61. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $2,000 | The siding was stripped from part of a house in Wilson. |
| November 2007 | Hail | Wilson | $2,000 | Penny size hail was covering the ground. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $1,000 | Several trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Wilson | $100 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Wilson | $50 | A tornado briefly touched down near Wilson producing little damage. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Wilson | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and telephone poles. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Wilson High School Gymnasium | 0.3 miles | 2015 |
 | Wilson Commercial Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2016 |
 | Wilson Community House | 0.5 miles | 2015 |
 | Wilson Residential Historic District | 1.2 miles | 2016 |
 | Delta Valley & Southern Railway Locomotive #50 | 2.2 miles | 2007 |
 | Keiser School | 7.9 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003332 in Record Group 79. |
| Mississippi County | All 40 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.
- 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.