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Photograph of Old Rondo Cemetery
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Confederate Section-Old Rondo Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Old Rondo Cemetery is located at the junction of McClure Road and Cobb Lane in Rondo, a small community in Miller County just northeast of Texarkana, Arkansas. The cemetery is best known for the burial site at its center, where the remains of 85 Confederate Army soldiers are buried.”

Wikipedia article Old Rondo Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Miller County · listed in 2004 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 18 objectss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Confederate Section--Old Rondo Cemetery - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1612 Smith Rd., Rondo, 71854
  • When was it listed? September 2004
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Civil War Commemorative Sculpture MPS
  • Township. Garland township
  • National Register reference number. 04001029 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

157 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Confederate Section-Old Rondo Cemetery between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,036 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 18 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 burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAY/GILLAM
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
4 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1 COUNTY ROAD 1329 ST
30 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Confederate Section-Old Rondo Cemetery: 14 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hoot PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kennedy Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Putch Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
DickeyClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this property

3 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rondo, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRondo-A measured wind gust of 61 mph was recorded along Meadows Road in Texarkana.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindRondo-Trees downed throughout parts of Miller County.
February 2023FloodRondo-Flooding reported on US Highway 82.

Every storm recorded in Miller 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
US 67, Old, Mandeville3.3 miles2004
Miller County Courthouse3.7 miles1998
John Clifton House4.0 miles2000
Charles J. Neif House4.1 miles1994
Bottoms House4.1 miles1982
Kittrell House4.1 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001029 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miller CountyAll 35 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.