Photograph of Davidsonville Historic State Park — Photograph by Thomas R Machnitzki (thomas@machnitzki.com), CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old Davidsonville State Historic Monument

Built in 1957. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Davidsonville Historic State Park is a 163-acre (66 ha) Arkansas state park in Randolph County, Arkansas in the United States. Situated on a border between The Ozarks and the Arkansas Delta, the park preserves the remains of the abandoned frontier town of Davidsonville.”
Wikipedia article Davidsonville Historic State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Randolph County · listed in 1974 · category: Site · built in 1957.

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

The listing

Address. NE of Black Rock on Black River, Black Rock, 72455
When was it listed? January 1974
Category. site
Township. East Roanoke township
When was it built? 1957
National Register reference number. 74000499 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

35 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Old Davidsonville State Historic Monument between 1998 and 2020, burning about 405 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	15
Arson/incendiarism	10
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
17 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Old Davidsonville State Historic Monument: 10 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Adams Property	Iron	Prospect
Verkler Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Old Union School	7.8 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000499 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Randolph County	All 19 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.