Cane Hill Battlefield

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Cane Hill Battlefield is a historic district encompassing the battlefield of the Battle of Cane Hill, fought during the American Civil War on November 28, 1862, in and around the site of present-day Cane Hill, Arkansas. Because the battle was a running battle that extended over many hours and 12 miles (19 km) of roads, the battlefield is more than 5,700 acres (2,300 ha) in size, extending in all directions around Cane Hill.”
Wikipedia article Cane Hill Battlefield, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1994 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. Area surrounding AR 45 and Co. Rds. 291, 8, 284, and 285, Cane Hill, 72753
When was it listed? March 1994
Category. site
Township. Cane Hill township
National Register reference number. 94000132 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

35 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Cane Hill Battlefield between 1999 and 2017, burning about 456 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2011	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 April 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cane Hill Battlefield: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pyeatte Mill Site	2.5 miles	1982
Earle House	2.7 miles	1982
William Welch House	2.9 miles	1982
Methodist Manse	2.9 miles	1982
Zeb Edmiston House	2.9 miles	1982
A. R. Carroll Building	3.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000132 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 160 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.