Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery

Built in 1862. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army installation north of Leavenworth, Kansas. It was officially established in 1862, but was used as a burial ground as early as 1844, and was one of the twelve original United States National Cemeteries designated by Abraham Lincoln.”
Wikipedia article Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Leavenworth County · listed in 1999 · category: Site · built in 1862.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Within Fort Leavenworth military reservation, Fort Leavenworth, 66027
When was it listed? July 1999
Category. site
City. Leavenworth city
When was it built? 1862
National Register reference number. 99000834 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

76 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery between 2015 and 2018, burning about 99 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Natural	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
31 July 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Leavenworth County	1604
28 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Leavenworth County	124
19 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	119
19 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1265
15 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	93
8 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	975
29 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	87
28 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	1112

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Leavenworth 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
Fort Leavenworth	0.7 miles	1966
David W. Powers House	1.7 miles	1977
North Broadway School	1.8 miles	2011
William Small Memorial Home for Aged Women	1.9 miles	2020
North Broadway Historic District	2.2 miles	2002
North Esplanade Historic District	2.3 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000834 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Leavenworth County	All 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.
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.