Sulphur Springs Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“Sulphur Springs Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the unincorporated community of Sulphur Springs Yell County, Arkansas, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article Sulphur Springs Cemetery (Sulphur Springs, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Yell County · listed in 2012 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Slo Fork Rd., Sulphur Springs, 72834
When was it listed? February 2012
Category. site
Township. Sulphur Springs township
National Register reference number. 12000038 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

44 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs Cemetery between 1995 and 2019, burning about 892 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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	17
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SULPHER SPRINGS #1
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SULPHER SPRINGS #2
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HYDRO-AX
22 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HARKEY VALLEY WEST
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	FOURCHE

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs Cemetery: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk Shale Pits 2	Clay	Past Producer
	Warren Brothers Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Yell 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
Mt. Nebo State Park Cabin No. 61	4.1 miles	2016
Mt. Nebo State Park Cabin No. 60	4.2 miles	2016
Mt. Nebo State Park Cabin No. 62	4.2 miles	2016
Mt. Nebo State Park Cabin No. 63	4.2 miles	2016
Mt. Nebo State Park Cabin No. 64	4.3 miles	2016
Mt. Nebo State Park Cabin No. 65	4.4 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000038 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yell County	All 33 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.