Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
“The Letona Hotel is a historic former hotel building, between North Hotel and North Spain Streets, just north of Arkansas Highway 310 in Letona, Arkansas. It is a wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and novelty siding.”
Wikipedia article Letona Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Letona Hotel between 1998 and 2019, burning about 641 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | WHI17514057 |
| 1 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 August 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Letona Hotel: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Letona, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letona | 3 hurt, $750,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were down. Trees also damaged a number of motor vehicles. One mobile home and two recreational vehicles were overturned. Numerous homes sustained roof damage. There were three injuries. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letona | $200,000 | According to the American Red Cross, two mobile homes were destroyed, two houses and one mobile home suffered major damage, six houses and two mobile homes had minor damage, and one house was affected. In addition, trees and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letona | $75,000 | Numerous trees were blown down, power lines were blown down, and shingles were blown off a mobile home. In Letona, one tree fell on a church and another fell on a house. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letona | $25,000 | A tree was down on a house. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Letona | - | Some large trees were knocked down. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Letona | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Letona | - | no account filed |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Martindale Corn Crib | 0.7 miles | 1992 |
 | Wesley Marsh House | 1.3 miles | 1992 |
 | New Mt. Pisgah School | 2.3 miles | 1992 |
| Albert Whisinant House | 2.7 miles | 1992 | |
 | Gray-Kincaid House | 3.2 miles | 1992 |
 | Storm Cellar, William Howell House | 3.4 miles | 1992 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91001329 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| White County | All 203 listed properties in this county. |
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