Mound Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Mound Cemetery is a historic cemetery, located just outside Arkansas City, Arkansas in Desha County. The oldest portion of the cemetery, dating to the 1860s, is located on top of a Mississippian culture mound, one of the few places the early American settlers of the area found to be safe from periodic flooding by the Mississippi River.”
Wikipedia article Mound Cemetery (Arkansas City, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Desha County · listed in 2008 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. .5 mi. N. of Arkansas City on Co. Rd. 351, Arkansas City, 71630
When was it listed? January 2008
Category. site
Township. Franklin township
National Register reference number. 07001426 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mound Cemetery: 1 unknown. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Greenville Gravel Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	1909

Every working recorded in Desha County

Storms near this property

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arkansas City, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Arkansas City	$50,000	A metal storage building was damaged. Trees and power lines were blown down around Arkansas City and elsewhere in Desha County.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Arkansas City	$25,000	Trees were blown down, with some of the trees falling on houses.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Arkansas City	$10,000	Trees were blown down and there was minor damage to a gas station.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Arkansas City	$7,000	A few large trees were downed with damage to a home and a car.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Arkansas City	$500	Few trees were blown down.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Arkansas City	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 65 mph and large tree limbs were blown down onto power lines on Natchez Street.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Arkansas City	-	This wind gust was estimated.
March 2013	Hail	Arkansas City	-	Hail the size of quarters fell on Arkansas 4.
August 2012	Heavy Rain	Arkansas City	-	Rainfall measured 5.00 inches in 24 hours.
September 2005	Tornado (F0)	Arkansas City	-	A weak tornado was spawned in southeast Desha County. The tornado moved to the northwest around the remnants of Hurricane Rita. Estimated winds with the tornado were about 60 mph. The tornado caused minor damage to a couple of company buildings along the Mississippi River. The tornado also destroyed a carport at a residence, and uprooted or snapped some trees. The tornado was on the ground for 11 miles before dissipating.
June 2017	Hail	Arkansas City	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Arkansas City	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Arkansas City	-	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Arkansas City	-	no account filed
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Arkansas City	-	no account filed
January 1995	Hail	Arkansas City	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Arkansas City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Desha 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
Arkansas City High School	0.7 miles	1984
Dickinson-Moore House	0.7 miles	2011
Desha County Courthouse	0.8 miles	1976
Hubert & Ionia Furr House	0.8 miles	2011
Thane House	0.9 miles	1982
Xenophon Overton Pindall Law Office	1.0 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001426 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Desha County	All 26 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.
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.