Lee Grocery Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 100 Main St., Elaine, 72333
When was it listed? February 2020
Category. building
Township. Tappan township
National Register reference number. 100004897 - 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 Lee Grocery Store: 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
	Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this property

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elaine, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2009	Flash Flood	Elaine	$500,000	Heavy rain produced flash flooding over Eastern Phillips County. At least 60 homes sustained some water damage. Several roads were flooded in Elaine, Lexa, and Helena-West Helena and some sustained damage. At least 1 foot of water covered Highway 242 near Lick Creek.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Elaine	$500,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down several television antennas in Postelle and Elaine.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Elaine	$50,000	Straight-line winds damaged several homes and barns in Elaine.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Elaine	$5,000	More than a dozen power lines were blown down.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Elaine	$2,500	Some power lines were knocked down 5 miles north of Elaine.
April 2008	Hail	Elaine	$2,000	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Elaine	$750	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Elaine	$10	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004897 in Record Group 79.
Phillips County	All 60 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.