Hardy Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Hardy Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 722 Arkansas Highway 225 East in Centerville, Faulkner County, Arkansas. It is set on 3 acres (1.2 ha) fringed by cedar trees.”
Wikipedia article Hardy Cemetery (Centerville, Faulkner County, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Faulkner County · listed in 2009 · 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. 722 AR 225 E., Centerville, 72058
When was it listed? October 2009
Category. site
Township. Matthews township
National Register reference number. 09000798 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

75 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Hardy Cemetery between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,025 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	33 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2011	Natural	22 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Faulkner County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hardy Cemetery: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer
	Unk Shale Pits 3	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2005: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Centerville	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Centerville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulkner 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
Blessing Farmstead	0.7 miles	1990
Centerville United Methodist Church	1.0 miles	2024
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church	5.0 miles	2009
Guy High School Gymnasium	6.0 miles	1992
Guy Home Economics Building	6.0 miles	1992
E.E. Hooten House	6.5 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000798 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Faulkner County	All 64 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.