Black Oak Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Black Oak Cemetery is a historic cemetery in a remote area of Washington County, Arkansas, southwest of Greenland. It is located on a knob of land at the southern end of a north-south ridge east of Miller Mountain, and is best accessed via spur road running northward from Illinois Chapel Road west of Arkansas Highway 265.”
Wikipedia article Black Oak Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1998 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty Rd. 243, 4 mi. SW of Greenland, Greenland, 72064
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. site
National Register reference number. 98000619 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenland, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 8 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenland	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew a few large trees down.
February 2008	Hail	Greenland	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Greenland	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Greenland	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Greenland	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Greenland	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Greenland	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Greenland	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Greenland	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000619 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.
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.