Ft. Smith Confederate Monument

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Smith Confederate Monument stands on the grounds of the Sebastian County Courthouse at the junction of 6th and Rogers Streets in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The statue depicts a Confederate Army soldier, standing facing north, holding the upper stock of his rifle, which is grounded.”
Wikipedia article Ft. Smith Confederate Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Sebastian County · listed in 1996 · category: Object.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Courthouse Lawn, near jct. of 6th St. and Rogers Ave., Ft. Smith, 72901
When was it listed? April 1996
Category. object
Also known as. Civil War Commemorative Sculpture MPS
Township. Upper township
National Register reference number. 96000460 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Ft. Smith Confederate Monument between 1996 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
3 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 March 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 March 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
15 March 2004	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 March 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	29 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
27 February 2006	Debris and open burning	130 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	STATE 216
27 December 2020	Arson/incendiarism	65 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
27 December 2005	Smoking	25 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	STATE 059

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Ft. Smith Confederate Monument: 11 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aggregate, Light Weight, Stone. 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
Rescolite Company	Aggregate, Light Weight	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fort Smith Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Fort Smith Dredge & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
General Inn Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian 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
Atkinson-Williams Warehouse	under 500 feet	1979
West Garrison Avenue Historic District	under 500 feet	1979
Fort Smith US Post Office and Courthouse	under 500 feet	1999
Birney Safety Streetcar No. 224	0.1 miles	1994
Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall	0.2 miles	1993
St. Louis San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Steam Locomotive #4003	0.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000460 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sebastian County	All 64 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.