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Photograph of Lake Village Confederate Monument
Photograph by Jeff Noble, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lake Village Confederate Monument

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Lake Village Confederate Monument is located on the median of Lakeshore Drive, between Main and Jackson Streets in Lake Village, Arkansas. The marble monument depicts a Confederate Army soldier standing in mid stride with his left foot forward.”

Wikipedia article Lake Village Confederate Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Chicot 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. Lakeshore Dr. median, between Main and Jackson Sts., Lake Village, 71653
  • When was it listed? May 1996
  • Category. object
  • Also known as. Civil War Commemorative Sculpture MPS
  • District. District 5
  • National Register reference number. 96000509 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lake Village Confederate Monument between 2010 and 2013, burning about 97 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
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined47 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 October 2010Smoking50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Chicot 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 Lake Village Confederate Monument: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lee Mccort DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chicot County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Village, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLake Village$50,000Thunderstorm winds damaged several roofs.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindLake Village$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew over a trailer.
July 1994HailLake Village-A funnel cloud was sighted by the public over Eudora.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLake Village-no account filed
April 1994HailLake Village-no account filed
April 1994HailLake Village-no account filed
April 1994HailLake Village-no account filed
April 1994HailLake Village-no account filed
July 1994HailLake Village-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chicot 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000509 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chicot CountyAll 23 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.