Garden Point Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Mississippi County · listed in 2006 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4682 West AR 140, Etowah, 72370
When was it listed? May 2006
Category. site
Township. Little River township
National Register reference number. 06000415 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Garden Point Cemetery in 1999, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	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 August 1999	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this property

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Etowah, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Etowah	$2,000	Large tree down near the intersection of Highway 136 and County Road 634 in Etowah.
April 2022	Hail	Etowah	-	Golf ball-sized hail measured in Etowah.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Etowah	-	Straight line winds produced widespread damage in Mississippi County. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down. Three tractor-trailers and one camper overturned on Interstate 55 near Osceola. Construction barrels were also blown around on the interstate.

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Edward Samuel Wildy Barn	1.2 miles	2004
	Dyess Colony Center	7.8 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000415 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mississippi County	All 40 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.
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.