Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery is an American Civil War cemetery in Arkansas. It is located northeast of the village of Sulphur Springs, also known as White Sulphur Springs, in Jefferson County.”
Wikipedia article Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2005 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 objectss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Luckwood Rd. about one blk N of AR 54, Sulphur Springs, 71603
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. site
Also known as. Civil War Commemorative Sculpture MPS
Township. Spring township
National Register reference number. 04001512 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

141 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery between 2001 and 2020, burning about 789 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Arson/incendiarism	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2004	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Walter B. Sorrells Cottage	3.0 miles	1986
Jewel Bain House No. 4	5.7 miles	2017
Bellingrath House	6.0 miles	1994
Jewel Bain House Number 2	6.2 miles	2013
R. M. Knox House	6.5 miles	1975
Gibson-Burnham House	6.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001512 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 80 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.