Built in 1835. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
From the record
“Bethel Cemetery is a cemetery in rural western Lawrence County, Arkansas. It is located off County Road 225, about 1.1 miles (1.8 km) north of Arkansas Highway 117, roughly midway between Black Rock and Smithville.”
Wikipedia article Bethel Cemetery (Denton, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 31 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 2011 · category: Site · built in 1835.
National Register reference number. 11000354 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
81 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Bethel Cemetery
between 1997 and 2018, burning about 849 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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
29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
25
Arson/incendiarism
21
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Smoking
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
24 workings within 5 miles of Bethel Cemetery: 21 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Iron, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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