Lakeview Resettlement Project Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Lakeview Resettlement Project Historic District encompasses a significant portion of a Depression-era agricultural resettlement project of the United States federal government in and around Lake View, Arkansas. Covering nearly 4,400 acres (1,800 ha) on either side of Arkansas Highway 84 north of Old Town Lake, the area was developed in the 1930s by the Resettlement Administration as a rural community specifically developed for African-Americans.”
Wikipedia article Lakeview Resettlement Project Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Near the jct. of AR 85 & AR 44, Lake View, 72355
When was it listed? January 2019
Category. district
Township. Tappan township
National Register reference number. 100003357 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003357 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Phillips County	All 60 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.