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One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2020 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Elm Springs Cemetery, Historic Section
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Northeast of the east end of School St. on Lawn View Ln., Elm Springs, 72762
- When was it listed? November 2020
- Category. site
- Township. Elm Springs township
- National Register reference number. 100005759 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Elm Springs Cemetery, Historic Section between 1999 and 2019, burning about 162 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 March 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 March 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elm Springs, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 hail, 1 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elm Springs | - | An isolated severe thunderstorm moved across southern Benton County and northern Washington County during the early evening of September 30th. A microburst occurred in the Apple Meadow subdivision near Apple Blossom and Old Wire roads in the community of Bethel Heights, which is two miles south of Lowell. Nearly every home in the subdivision sustained some damage, and three homes were totally destroyed and three others sustained major damage. One minor injury occurred when a ceiling caved in on the person. Numerous trees and power lines were also blown down in Bethel Heights. Damage in Bethel Heights was estimated at $3.5 million. Trees were also blown down by strong thunderstorm winds in Elm Springs. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Elm Springs | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. Joseph Catholic Church | 1.9 miles | 2006 |
| Bariola Farm | 2.0 miles | ||
 | Tontitown School Building | 2.0 miles | 1992 |
 | Rabbits Foot Lodge | 4.0 miles | 1986 |
| Tweedy-Puntch House | 4.9 miles | 2019 | |
 | Old Springdale High School | 5.3 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005759 in Record Group 79. |
| Washington County | All 160 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.
- 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.