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Photograph of Lakeport Plantation
Photograph by Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lakeport Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Lakeport Plantation is a historic antebellum plantation house located near Lake Village, Arkansas. It was built around 1859 by Lycurgus Johnson with the profits of slave labor.”

Wikipedia article Lakeport Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Chicot County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. About 3 mi. SE of Shives, off AR 142, Shives, 71653
  • When was it listed? November 1974
  • Category. building
  • District. District 6
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 74000466 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lakeport Plantation in 2010, burning about 50 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
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 October 2010Smoking50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Chicot 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Harden Family Cemetery7.1 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000466 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chicot CountyAll 23 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.