American Legion Post No. 131

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The American Legion Post No. 131 is a historic meeting hall on Center St. west of its junction with Walnut St., in Leslie, Arkansas. It is a single-story log structure, with a gable roof that extends over the front porch, with large knee braces in the Craftsman style for support.”
Wikipedia article American Legion Post No. 131, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Searcy County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1935.

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.
Address. Center St. W of jct. with Walnut St., Leslie, 72645
When was it listed? December 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Searcy County MPS
Township. Wileys Cove township
When was it built? 1935
National Register reference number. 93001369 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

61 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of American Legion Post No. 131 between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,372 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Arson/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	13
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
7 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 June 2011	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	244 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of American Legion Post No. 131: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	J E Ferguson	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer
	Unk	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this property

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leslie, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	$10,000	A roof was dislodged on a building and a few trees were blown over onto houses.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	$10,000	Several trees were blown down onto roads.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the metal roofing off several buildings in Leslie.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	-	Some trees were blown over and there was damage to an awning.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto a power line. One house sustained some minor roof damage.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	-	Some large trees limbs were blown down.
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
April 2015	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
March 2010	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
February 2001	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Leslie	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Leslie	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Leslie	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Meek Building	under 500 feet	2000
Leslie Commercial Historic District	under 500 feet	2017
Dr. Clay House	under 500 feet	1993
Farmers Bank Building	under 500 feet	1993
Treat Commercial Building	under 500 feet	1993
Dr. Robinson House	under 500 feet	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001369 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Searcy County	All 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.