Memphis to Little Rock Road-Village Creek Segment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Memphis to Little Rock Road was a settlement road constructed between 1819 and Reconstruction in Arkansas. The project was one of many internal improvements to assist settlement of the Old Southwest as well as military defense of the Arkansas Territory.”
Wikipedia article Memphis to Little Rock Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Cross County · listed in 2003 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Listed as. Memphis to Little Rock Road--Village Creek Segment - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Lake Austell within Village Creek State Park, Newcastle, 72396
When was it listed? April 2003
Category. structure
Also known as. Cherokee Trail of Tears MPS; Cherokee Trail of Tears MPS (Additional Documentation)
National Register reference number. 03000193 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

40 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Memphis to Little Rock Road-Village Creek Segment between 1998 and 2020, burning about 276 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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	19
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
6 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	53 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Cross 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 Memphis to Little Rock Road-Village Creek Segment: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Baskins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Cross 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
New Hope School	4.4 miles	2008
Wittsburg Store and Gas Station	5.1 miles	2000
East Hamilton Avenue Historic District	6.6 miles	2011
Giboney-Robertson-Stewart House	6.6 miles	1998
South Elementary School	6.7 miles	2006
Woman's Progressive Club	6.7 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000193 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cross County	All 16 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.