Bunch Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Bunch Store is a historic commercial building at 100 Public Square in Kingston, Madison County, Arkansas. It is located at the northwest corner of the main square, and is a two-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof over its left two-thirds, and a flat roof over the remainder.”
Wikipedia article Bunch Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1999 · 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. 100 Public Sq., Kingston, 72740
When was it listed? November 1999
Category. building
Township. South township
National Register reference number. 99001350 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Bunch Store between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,745 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 August 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2014	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	MAD14293469
4 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 April 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	63 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 April 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 April 2003	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bunch Store: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
B.F.Hodges Property	Manganese	Past Producer
Fannie A Young	Lead, Zinc	Prospect
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingston, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 flash flood. 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
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
April 2025	Hail	Kingston	$25,000	Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
February 2012	Hail	Kingston	$25,000	no account filed
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a barn, and snapped large tree limbs.
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a few trees and numerous large tree limbs.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Kingston	-	Locally heavy rainfall resulted in flooding of county roads south of Kingston.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Kingston	-	Locally heavy rain resulted in excessive runoff and caused a river to flow out of its banks around Kingston.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large trees.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few large trees.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down.
December 2001	Flash Flood	Kingston	-	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused water to flow over a county road five miles south of Kingston.
April 2026	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
February 2012	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
March 2010	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bank of Kingston	under 500 feet	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001350 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 12 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.