Latham Confederate Monument

Built in 1887. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Latham Confederate Monument in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's Riverside Cemetery, is a monument on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Latham Confederate Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Christian County · listed in 1997 · category: Object · built in 1887.

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. Riverside Cemetery. W of Hopkinsville between US 41 and Louisville and Nashville RR tracks., Hokinsville, 42240
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. object
Also known as. Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
Census division. Hopkinsville
When was it built? 1887
National Register reference number. 97000709 - 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

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Latham Confederate Monument between 2004 and 2014, burning about 44 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	4
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 April 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	18 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HOPKINSVILLE /MT ZION
25 April 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Christian 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 Latham Confederate Monument: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General, Graphite. 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
Pembroke Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Superior Graphite/Hopkinsville, Ky.	Graphite	Unknown
Dalton Brick-Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Old Highway Shale	Clay	Prospect
Allied Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Christian Quarries, Inc.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hopkinsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
U.S. 41a Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Christian 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
Attucks High School	0.5 miles	2013
Freeman Chapel C.M.E. Church	0.5 miles	1983
Poston House	0.6 miles	1979
Grace Episcopal Church	0.7 miles	1982
Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville	0.7 miles	1997
Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District	0.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000709 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Christian County	All 51 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.