St. Charles Battle Monument

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Charles Battle Monument is located at the center of the intersection of Broadway and Arkansas Street in the center of St. It commemorates the 1862 Battle of Saint Charles, a naval and land engagement of the American Civil War that took place just downriver from the city.”
Wikipedia article St. Charles Battle Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Arkansas 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. Jct. of Arkansas St. and Broadway, St. Charles, 72140
When was it listed? May 1996
Category. object
Also known as. Civil War Commemorative Sculpture MPS
Township. Prairie township
National Register reference number. 96000505 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of St. Charles Battle Monument between 1995 and 2010, burning about 23 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	HIGHWAY 1
20 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	BUCK LAKE
1 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	OLD HWY 17
7 October 2010	Natural	under an acre	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	STORAGE SHED QUARTERS 6
30 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	INDIAN BAY
21 October 2007	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge	HWY 1 BOUNDARY

Every fire recorded in Arkansas 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	St. Charles Battle Site	0.6 miles	1974
	Crocketts Bluff Hunting Lodge	7.1 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000505 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arkansas County	All 24 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.