Photograph of Camp Beauregard Memorial — Photograph by Jacob singleton21, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Camp Beauregard Memorial, outside Water Valley, Kentucky on Kentucky state road 2422 northeast of town, marks the site of a Confederate States Army encampment named for General P. The camp was situated to protect the right flank of the Confederate encampment at Columbus, Kentucky.”
Wikipedia article Camp Beauregard Memorial, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Graves County · listed in 1997 · category: Object · built in 1909.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. Camp Beauregard Cemetery. 0.5 mi S of jct. of Roy Lawrence and Cuba Rds., Water Valley, 42085
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. object
Also known as. Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
Census division. Wingo-Water Valley
When was it built? 1909
National Register reference number. 97000698 - 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

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley between 1998 and 2019, burning about 288 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BARD ROAD
2 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PURCHASE PARKWAY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Graves County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bards Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Graves 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Meacham Manor	6.0 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000698 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Graves County	All 11 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.