Photograph of Fredonia Cemetery — Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fredonia Cemetery Historic Section

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Fredonia Cemetery, also known as Holly Grove Cemetery and Stevens Creek Cemetery, is a cemetery in rural White County, Arkansas, northwest of Bald Knob on Fredonia Road. The oldest portion of the cemetery houses marked graves with the oldest dating to 1870, and is estimated to contain at least 300 unmarked graves.”
Wikipedia article Fredonia Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 2007 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly 0.5 mi. down Fredonia Rd., past the jct of Fredonia and Honeysuckle Rds., Stevens Creek, 72010
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. site
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Liberty township
National Register reference number. 06001312 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

101 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Fredonia Cemetery Historic Section between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,868 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	3
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	96 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2001	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WHI17887418
23 September 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WHI17782797
21 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fredonia Cemetery Historic Section: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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	Stone	Past Producer
Malvern	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 White 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
Thompson House	0.3 miles	1992
Holly Grove School	0.6 miles	1992
Chandler House	0.6 miles	1992
J. C. Rhew Co. Packing Shed	1.5 miles	1992
Gordon, Leonard, Homestead, Hexagonal Grain Crib	1.6 miles	1992
Jim Wright Farmstead Historic District	2.3 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001312 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White County	All 203 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.