Mount Olive-Bedford Chapel Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Mount Olive-Bedford Chapel Cemetery is a historic cemetery in rural White County, Arkansas, United States, northeast of Mount Vernon on Manning Road. It was founded in the 1880s, and is the only surviving remnant of an African-American community called "The Colony".”
Wikipedia article Mount Olive-Bedford Chapel Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 2019 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. Sw of the intersection of Nix & Manning Rds., Mt. Vernon, 72111
When was it listed? May 2019
Category. site
Township. Cadron township
National Register reference number. 100003997 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

58 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive-Bedford Chapel Cemetery between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,630 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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	19
Debris and open burning	18
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	3
Smoking	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
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2000	Smoking	65 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2006	Natural	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2010	Natural	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White 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 Mount Olive-Bedford Chapel Cemetery: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Clay. 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	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	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
Scott-Davis House	2.9 miles	1992
Pence-Carmichael Farm, Barn and Root Cellar	3.5 miles	1992
Roy Harper House	5.2 miles	1992
E. D. Maddox Farm Chicken House	5.8 miles	1992
Darden-Gifford House	6.0 miles	1976
Gravel Hill Baptist Church	6.9 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003997 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.