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Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad Depot-Leachville

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad Depot-Leachville is a historic railroad station at the junction of 2nd and McNamee Streets in Leachville, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with an asphalt roof and wide overhanging eaves.”

Wikipedia article Leachville station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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. Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad Depot--Leachville - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. NE corner of 2nd and McNamee Sts., Leachville, 72438
  • When was it listed? June 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Historic Railroad Depots of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Neal township
  • National Register reference number. 92000612 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad Depot-Leachville in 2014, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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 January 2014Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBEAR PEN

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this property

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leachville, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
December 2021Tornado (EF3)Leachville1 killed, $1,250,000After crossing from Craighead County into Mississippi County the tornado struck the northern portions of Leachville, in northwestern Mississippi County. Several homes suffered partial or complete roof loss in northwestern Leachville. A restaurant, store, and cotton gin suffered considerable damage along Highway 77, and numerous power poles were snapped. A fatality occurred in the store. Anchors to the store's metal frame were pulled out of the concrete foundation. The tornado's path was estimated at nearly a mile wide in this area. The tornado approached the Little River area south of Hornersville, near the Arkansas/Missouri state line. A stand of trees was debarked east of Arkansas County Road 243. Several homes and mobile homes were heavily damaged or destroyed along State Line Road. Additional debarking of trees was noted. The tornado then crossed into Dunklin County, Missouri. Peak winds in Mississippi County were estimated at 145 mph.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLeachville$35,000A shed and a farm shop were destroyed in Leachville. A home was damaged in Manila. Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLeachville$20,000Straight line winds blew a roof off of a grocery store in Leachville.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindLeachville$20,000Some trees and power poles were blown down. Some of the trees fell on at least one house in West Ridge.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindLeachville$15,000The roof was completely blown off of an occupied mobile home. The family lost all their belongings as a result. Several trees were knocked down.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindLeachville$10,000A home and a shed were damaged. A window was also blown out of the courthouse in Osceola. Power lines were also knocked down with a few trees uprooted.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLeachville$10,000One building in Leachville was damaged. Some large trees and power poles were blown down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLeachville$10,000Some trees and utility poles were knocked down.
January 1997Thunderstorm WindLeachville$10,000no account filed
January 2006Thunderstorm WindLeachville$5,000A couple of mobile homes were damaged.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindLeachville$5,000A few trees were knocked down.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Leachville$5,000The tornado touched down near Leachville and tracked northeast. Several large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2007HailLeachville$2,000no account filed
May 2006HailLeachville$1,000no account filed
March 2006HailLeachville$170no account filed
March 2006HailLeachville$10no account filed
April 2025Flash FloodLeachville-Portions of AR Hwy 119 were closed due to high water.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindLeachville-Straight line winds knocked trees and power lines down across Mississippi County. A road sign for a local store was knocked down in Keiser.
June 2024HailLeachville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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

2 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
Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Depot6.6 miles1997
Herman Davis Memorial6.9 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000612 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mississippi CountyAll 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.