Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
From the record
“Hampton Springs Cemetery is a cemetery in rural Dallas County, Arkansas, United States, at the junction of county roads 425 and 427, near the city of Carthage. The cemetery is divided into two sections, one in which traditional European grave markers predominate, and another section in which graves are marked by a local adaptation of African burial customs.”
Wikipedia article Hampton Springs Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1983 · category: Site.
National Register reference number. 83003473 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
82 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Hampton Springs Cemetery (Black Section)
between 1997 and 2018, burning about 963 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism
32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
18
Debris and open burning
16
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Natural
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Smoking
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
6 workings within 5 miles of Hampton Springs Cemetery (Black Section): 6 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Carthage, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flood.
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.
A mobile home was blown off its foundation and had part of its roof blown off, windows blown out, and limbs thrown through its roof. Power lines, power poles, and trees were blown down.
A weak tornado touched down in northeast Dallas County near the Cooney community. The only damage noted were a number of trees that were twisted and blown down. The tornado moved eastward into Grant County.
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
4 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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