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Photograph of Dual State Monument
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dual State Monument

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Dual State Monument is a monument located on the border of Union County, Arkansas, and Union Parish, Louisiana. The monument was built in 1931 to mark the centennial of the establishment of the Arkansas-Louisiana state line.”

Wikipedia article Dual State Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 2000 · 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. Co. Rd. 86, Aurelle, 71765
  • When was it listed? September 2000
  • Category. object
  • National Register reference number. 99001354 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

42 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Dual State Monument between 1997 and 2018, burning about 379 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Smoking1

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
20 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionUNI15447500
20 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
31 August 2000Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
21 August 2006Natural4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Union 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001354 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union CountyAll 40 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.