Editing Leachville, Arkansas (section)

==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.<ref name="thomas" />

The [[Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad]] completed a rail line to Leachville in 1899, and the Blytheville, Leachville and Arkansas Southern Railroad completed a second line in 1908.<ref name="thomas">Terry Thomas, "[http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=937 Leachville (Mississippi County)]," ''Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture'', 2018.</ref>

One of the largest [[cotton gin]]s in Arkansas, the Adams Land Company gin, was completed in Leachville in the early 1990s.<ref name=thomas />

On the evening of [[Tornado outbreak of December 10-11, 2021|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.