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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Desha County · listed in 1992 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery
A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 28 objectss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. AR 1, Rohwer, 71670
- When was it listed? July 1992
- Category. district
- Township. Richland township
- National Register reference number. 92001882 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery between 2002 and 2011, burning about 140 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 130 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | DESHA |
Storms near this property
11 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rohwer, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rohwer | $50,000 | Roofs were peeled back or blown off of several outbuildings and several trees were snapped. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Rohwer | - | Lime-sized hail fell in the town of Rohwer. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Rohwer | - | The COOP observer at Rohwer reported 6.55 inches of rain in the last 24 hours ending at 845 AM CST. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Rohwer | - | Highway 1 was under water and imipassible, and eventually closed. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rohwer | - | A few trees were down in the area. |
| May 2015 | Heavy Rain | Rohwer | - | Heavy rainfall of 2.23 inches was observed. |
| August 2012 | Heavy Rain | Rohwer | - | Rainfall measured 4.99 inches in 24 hours. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Rohwer | - | Water was reported over one lane of Arkansas Highway 1. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Rohwer | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rohwer | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Flash Flood | Rohwer | - | no account filed |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Kemp Cotton Gin Historic District | 0.3 miles | 2005 |
 | Rohwer Relocation Center Site | 0.5 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92001882 in Record Group 79. |
| Desha County | All 26 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.
- 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.