Lake Village Post Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Lake Village Post Office is a historic post office at 206 South Cokley Street in Lake Village, Arkansas. The single-story brick Colonial Revival building was built c. 1939; it is roughly square in shape, with a four-sided cupola topped by a bell-cast roof and pyramid.”
Wikipedia article Lake Village Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Chicot County · listed in 1998 · 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.
Address. 206 S. Cokley St., Lake Village, 71653
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. building
Also known as. Post Offices with Section Art in Arkansas MPS
District. District 5
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 98000916 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lake Village Post Office between 2010 and 2013, burning about 97 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
21 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 October 2010	Smoking	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Chicot 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 Lake Village Post Office: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 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
	Lee Mccort Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Chicot County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Village, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 6 hail, 3 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Village	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged several roofs.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Village	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew over a trailer.
July 1994	Hail	Lake Village	-	A funnel cloud was sighted by the public over Eudora.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Village	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Lake Village	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Lake Village	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Lake Village	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Lake Village	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Lake Village	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chicot 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
John Tushek Building	under 500 feet	1993
Lake Village Confederate Monument	under 500 feet	1996
Dr. E.P. McGehee Infirmary	0.1 miles	2005
Lake Village Commercial Historic District	0.2 miles	2011
New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Historic Section	0.2 miles	1992
Chicot County Courthouse	0.2 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000916 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chicot County	All 23 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.