Jackson Guards Memorial

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Jackson Guards Memorial is a sculpture commemorating the Jackson Guards, a unit of the Confederate Army, in Arkansas's Jacksonport State Park. The sculpture stands at Washington and Avenue Streets in the park, and depicts a standing male soldier, holding with both hands a rifle, butt on the ground.”
Wikipedia article Jackson Guards Memorial, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Jackson 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. Jacksonport State Park, jct. of Washington and Avenue Sts., Jacksonport, 72112
When was it listed? April 1996
Category. object
Also known as. Civil War Commemorative Sculpture MPS
Township. Jefferson township
National Register reference number. 96000465 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jackson Guards Memorial in 2018, burning about 90 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
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
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Jackson Guards Memorial: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Newport #5 & #7	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
County Operators	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Midstream Dredge & Plant No 6	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mobley Construction Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Newport Dredge & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Newport Plt	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
River S&G Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
River Sand & Gravel Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonport, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 flood, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 30 injuries. 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
March 1997	Tornado (F2)	Jacksonport	1 killed, 30 hurt, $25,000,000	no account filed
April 2008	Flood	Jacksonport	$150,000	After only a day below flood stage, the White River at the Newport gage rose again to major flood level by the 12th of the month, and remained above the major flood level for more than three days. The river fell below flood stage on the 22nd of the month. The April crest of 33.16 feet was the third highest since the flood control reservoirs were completed in the middle of the twentieth century. Damages were limited to whatever repairs had been made since the March crest.
June 2011	Flood	Jacksonport	$5,000	Areal flooding in Jackson County finally diminished after the Black, White, and Cache Rivers receded.
March 2023	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport in late March.
February 2023	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rain in the early part of February brought flooding to the White River at Newport.
May 2022	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport in early to mid May.
November 2021	Hail	Jacksonport	-	Hail covered the ground.
May 2021	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport on May 1, 2021.
February 2019	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport on February 20.
February 2019	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport on February 12.
May 2019	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rain brought flooding to the White River at Newport May 11 and 12.
May 2017	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rain caused flooding during the latter part of May on the White River at Newport.
May 2017	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rain from April caused flooding that continued into May on the White River at Newport.
May 2009	Flood	Jacksonport	-	While the stage of the White River did not exceed flood stage at Newport, over bank flooding caused the destruction of thousands of acres of a young soybean crop. A stage in excess of 12 feet begins to break out into row crops and 16 to 21 feet covers a large area of the flood plain. Stages at Newport varied from 14 to 23 feet during the month of May. As many as 30,000 acres could have been impacted with crop plantings delayed or young crops destroyed.
June 2009	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rainfall in May pushed the White River out of its banks in May and the impacts to agriculture lingered into early June. Planted crops were destroyed and planting of additional acreage was delayed.
October 2009	Flood	Jacksonport	-	Heavy rainfall at the end of October pushed the White River at Newport above flood stage.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonport	-	Large tree limbs downed.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonport	-	Trees and power lines were blown down in Jacksonport.
August 2004	Hail	Jacksonport	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Jacksonport	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Jacksonport	-	no account filed
January 1999	Tornado (F2)	Jacksonport	-	no account filed
January 1999	Tornado (F1)	Jacksonport	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Jacksonport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Jacksonport State Park	0.3 miles	1970
Newport Bridge	2.4 miles	1990
Gregg House	2.5 miles	1982
Missouri-Pacific Depot-Newport	2.8 miles	1992
Arkansas Bank & Trust Company	2.8 miles	1986
Newport Bridge	2.9 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000465 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 16 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.
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.