Photograph of Marks' Mills Battleground State Park — Photograph by Farther Along, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marks' Mills Battlefield Park

Built in 1961. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Marks' Mills Battleground State Park is an Arkansas State Park located at the junction of Arkansas Highway 8 and Arkansas Highway 97, north of New Edinburg, Arkansas. It preserves a portion of the battlefield of the Battle of Marks' Mills fought on April 25, 1864, in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of American Civil War.”
Wikipedia article Marks' Mills Battleground State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Cleveland County · listed in 1970 · category: Site · built in 1961.

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

The listing

Address. Jct. of AR 8 and AR 97, Fordyce, 71660
When was it listed? January 1970
Category. site
Township. Redland township
When was it built? 1961
National Register reference number. 70000119 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

43 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Marks' Mills Battlefield Park between 2001 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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	25
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	3

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
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2011	Natural	11 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Cleveland 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

5 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
Attwood-Hopson House	1.8 miles	1994
New Edinburg Commercial Historic District	1.9 miles	2001
Barnett-Attwood House	2.1 miles	1977
Magnolia Petroleum Company Filling Station	5.7 miles	2019
Old US 79, Kingsland Segment	6.2 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000119 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cleveland County	All 15 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.