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Photograph of Campbell Post Office-Kuykendall General Store
Photograph by Kennethrorie, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Campbell Post Office-Kuykendall General Store

Built in 1900 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Campbell Post Office-Kuykendall General Store is a historic residential-commercial building in rural Searcy County, Arkansas. It is located on County Road 73, northwest of Oxley, Arkansas.”

Wikipedia article Campbell Post Office-Kuykendall General Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Searcy County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1900, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Campbell Post Office--Kuykendall General Store - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 73 NW of Oxley, Oxley, 72650
  • When was it listed? December 1993
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Searcy County MPS
  • Township. Oxley township
  • When was it built? 1900
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 93001364 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

70 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Campbell Post Office-Kuykendall General Store between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,914 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning11
Smoking1
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
8 September 2011Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Arson/incendiarism13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2011Debris and open burning35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2006Arson/incendiarism29 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2002Arson/incendiarism90 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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 Campbell Post Office-Kuykendall General Store: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxley, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Oxley$30,000This tornado started in the southeast corner of Searcy county. The tornado uprooted several trees along its path, along with ripping roof panels off of a barn, and damaging others. It tracked northeast for 0.8 miles in Searcy county.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindOxley$20,000Widespread tree damage was reported in the area as well as damage to a few barns.
May 2024HailOxley-A report via mPING of dime-sized hail fell in Oxley.
June 2017FloodOxley-Heavy rain continued into June on the White River at Georgetown.
May 2017FloodOxley-Heavy rain from April caused flooding that continued into May on the White River at Georgetown.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOxley-A large tree was blown down in front of a residence.
April 2022HailOxley-no account filed
June 2005HailOxley-no account filed
January 2002HailOxley-no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindOxley-no account filed
July 1996HailOxley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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

6 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
Jasper E. Treece Building2.4 miles1993
William P. and Rosa Lee Martin Farm4.4 miles2011
Greene Thomas House5.1 miles1993
Guy Bartley House5.2 miles1993
Leslie-Rolen House5.4 miles1993
Dr. J. O. Cotton House5.4 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001364 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Searcy CountyAll 52 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.