Eureka Springs Cemetery

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“The Eureka Springs Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at the junction of County Road 205 and United States Route 62 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It is 46.5 acres (18.8 ha) in size, and contains an unusual variation of urban and rural layout and burial practices.”
Wikipedia article Eureka Springs Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 2018 · category: Site · built in 1889.

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

The listing

Address. NW of jct. of Cty. Rd. 205 & US 62 E, Eureka Springs, 72632
When was it listed? June 2018
Category. site
Township. Western township
When was it built? 1889
National Register reference number. 100002535 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

98 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Eureka Springs Cemetery between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,881 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 36 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Arson/incendiarism	36
Debris and open burning	20
Natural	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
13 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2006	Natural	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Eureka Springs Cemetery: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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
Garrett Sand & Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kings River Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka Springs, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. The reports record 10 injuries. 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 1995	Hail	Eureka Springs	10 hurt	Severe thunderstorms moved across northwest Arkansas during the evening of May 24th. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour in Bloomer, and hail ranging from nickel to golf ball-size fell at Eureka Springs. The hail injured approximately ten persons attending an outdoor passion play in Eureka Springs. Dime-size hail fell two miles southeast of Fort Smith, at Jenny Lind, and at Strickler.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka Springs	$500	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka Springs	-	Severe thunderstorms moved across northwest Arkansas during the evening of April 19th. Thunderstorm winds estimated at 100 miles an hour destroyed 1 mobile home and 2 poultry barns 1.5 miles northwest of Gentry, and mobile homes were damaged and trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds 4 miles west of Gentry. Numerous trees were blown down in Gentry by 65 mile an hour winds, and several houses in Gentry received major roof damage. Strong thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto a house in Pea Ridge, and blew down a power line 6 miles north of Eureka Springs. Dime size hail fell at several locations in northwest Arkansas, and 1 man was injured in Centerton when he was struck by lightning.
May 1995	Hail	Eureka Springs	-	Severe thunderstorms moved across northwest Arkansas during the evening of May 24th. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour in Bloomer, and hail ranging from nickel to golf ball-size fell at Eureka Springs. The hail injured approximately ten persons attending an outdoor passion play in Eureka Springs. Dime-size hail fell two miles southeast of Fort Smith, at Jenny Lind, and at Strickler.
June 1994	Hail	Eureka Springs	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
June 1994	Hail	Eureka Springs	-	Some trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka Springs	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka Springs	-	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka Springs	-	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Concord School House	1.4 miles	2009
Lane House Theater	1.7 miles	1970
Eureka Springs Auditorium	1.8 miles	1970
Crescent Hotel	1.9 miles	2016
Eureka Springs Historic District (Boundary Increase)	1.9 miles	1979
Sanitarium Lake Bridges Historic District	2.1 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002535 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll County	All 34 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.