Built in 1961. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
From the record
“The Jenkins' Ferry Battleground State Park, also known as the Jenkins' Ferry Battlefield, is a battlefield in Grant County, Arkansas. The Arkansas state park commemorates the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry fought on Saturday, April 30, 1864, during the Red River campaign of the American Civil War.”
Wikipedia article Jenkins' Ferry Battleground State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1970 · category: Site · built in 1961.
National Register reference number. 70000120 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
94 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Jenkins' Ferry Battleground
between 1997 and 2019, burning about 501 acres in total. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism
21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
20
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Natural
7
Smoking
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Jenkins' Ferry Battleground: 6 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Leola, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 3 heavy rain.
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.
This tornado exited Dallas County, north-northeast of Carthage, and moved into Grant County, south-southeast of Leola. About 10 residences (houses and mobile homes) were destroyed, nine had major damage, and approximately 35 had minor damage. Several barns and outbuildings were destroyed. One church also suffered damage. The majority of the damage was in the area around the Crossroads community. There was extensive timber damage. One major power transmission line was knocked down, as were a number of other power lines and poles.
In Leola, October was the wettest month ever recorded. In addition, October's rainfall caused Leola to break the record for the wettest year ever recorded in the town. Rainfall records began in 1948.
A weak tornado tracked to the northeast for about 6 miles between Leola and Prattsville. The only damage observed along the path of the tornado was a number of downed trees and the tin roof blown off a metal barn.
The weak tornado moved from Hot Spring County into the southwest corner of Grant County about 5.3 miles southwest of Leola. Virtually all the damage was to trees that were either downed or twisted off. The tornado dissipated about 3 miles northwest of Leola.
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.
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.
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.
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