Built in 1965. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
From the record
“Jacksonport State Park is a 164.7-acre (66.7 ha) Arkansas state park in Jackson County, Arkansas in the United States. The park contains the 1872 Jacksonport courthouse which served as the home of county government from 1872-1892.”
Wikipedia article Jacksonport State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1970 · category: District · built in 1965.
National Register reference number. 70000121 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2018
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jacksonport State Park
in 2018, burning about 90 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Jacksonport State Park: 5 producers, 3 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jacksonport, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 flood, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 1 death and 30 injuries. 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.
After only a day below flood stage, the White River at the Newport gage rose again to major flood level by the 12th of the month, and remained above the major flood level for more than three days. The river fell below flood stage on the 22nd of the month. The April crest of 33.16 feet was the third highest since the flood control reservoirs were completed in the middle of the twentieth century. Damages were limited to whatever repairs had been made since the March crest.
While the stage of the White River did not exceed flood stage at Newport, over bank flooding caused the destruction of thousands of acres of a young soybean crop. A stage in excess of 12 feet begins to break out into row crops and 16 to 21 feet covers a large area of the flood plain. Stages at Newport varied from 14 to 23 feet during the month of May. As many as 30,000 acres could have been impacted with crop plantings delayed or young crops destroyed.
Heavy rainfall in May pushed the White River out of its banks in May and the impacts to agriculture lingered into early June. Planted crops were destroyed and planting of additional acreage was delayed.
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.
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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