Trippe Holly Grove Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Holly Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery, located on the south side of Crooked Bayou Drive, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of McGehee, Arkansas. The cemetery is the only surviving remnant of the community of Trippe Junction, established in 1857 by the families of William Fletcher Trippe and his brother-in-law Benjamin McGehee.”
Wikipedia article Trippe Holly Grove Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Desha County · listed in 1999 · 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. AR 4 or Crooked Bayou Rd., approx. 2 mi. S of McGehee, McGehee, 71654
When was it listed? June 1999
Category. site
Township. Halley township
National Register reference number. 99000729 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Trippe Holly Grove Cemetery between 2005 and 2007, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Desha County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McGehee, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McGehee	$50,000	Several homes received roof damage. A garage door was also blown off a house.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McGehee	-	Thunderstorm winds caused some roof damage and blew over a storage building.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McGehee	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs and damaged some roofs.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McGehee	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of two storage buildings and two homes in McGehee.
January 1995	Hail	McGehee	-	no account filed
February 1995	Hail	McGehee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Desha 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
McGehee National Guard Armory	2.2 miles	2006
Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-McGehee	3.3 miles	1992
McGehee City Jail	3.3 miles	2011
Missouri Pacific Railway Van Noy Eating House	3.3 miles	2011
McGehee Post Office	3.5 miles	2010
Parnell-Sharpe House	3.5 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000729 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Desha County	All 26 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.
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.