Leachville

History

Leachville was established in 1896 by land developers Joshua Gilbert Leach, James Wiseman Honnoll, and Sam McNamee, who afterward formed the Leach-McNamee Land Development Company. One of the largest cotton gins in Arkansas, the Adams Land Company gin, was completed in Leachville in the early 1990s. On the evening of December 10, 2021, the north side of Leachville suffered major damage from a long track and violent EF4 tornado, a woman was killed at a Dollar General and several others suffered injuries.

Geography

Leachville is located in the Arkansas Delta region. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. The Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge, which preserves some of the bottomland hardwood forest typical of this ecoregion prior to development for row agriculture lies east of Leachville.

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