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Cleveland County, Arkansas

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14historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

7,550pop. 2020

47cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 14 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Rison, New Edinburg, Kingsland.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Arkansas is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Cleveland titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 14 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

14 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Attwood-Hopson House	New Edinburg	Building	1994
Barnett-Attwood House	New Edinburg	Building	1977
Cherry Cemetery	Rison	Site	2024
Cleveland County Clerk's Building	Rison	Building	1976
Cleveland County Courthouse	Rison	Building	1977
Magnolia Petroleum Company Filling Station	Kingsland	Building	2019
Marks' Mills Battlefield Park NHL	Fordyce	Site	1970
Mount Olivet Methodist Church	Rison	Building	1975
New Edinburg Commercial Historic District	New Edinburg	District	2001
Old US 79, Kingsland Segment	Kingsland	Structure	2005
Rison Cities Service Station	Rison	Building	2001
Rison Overpass	Rison	Structure	2021
Rison Texaco Service Station	Rison	Building	2002
Wesley Chapel	Woodlawn	Building	1995

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Cleveland was formed in 1873 (1873-04-17) from Bradley, Dallas, Jefferson, Lincoln.

DORSEY (now CLEVELAND) created from BRADLEY, DALLAS, JEFFERSON, and LINCOLN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Cleveland County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
8,370	11,620	12,260	12,570	8,956	6,944	7,868	8,571	7,550

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

47 cemeteries and 21 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 47 of 47 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethel Cemetery	33.74677	-92.22514
Black Cemetery	34.05343	-92.30097
Blankenship Cemetery	33.7569	-91.9975
Broach Cemetery	33.90982	-92.37931
Camp Springs Cemetery	33.87732	-92.33875
Canada Cemetery	34.01465	-92.35473
Carter Cemetery	33.71927	-92.11208
Cherry Cemetery	33.88367	-92.15776
Crain Cemetery	33.75871	-92.2707
Friendship Cemetery	33.98204	-92.0293
Garner Cemetery	33.95704	-92.4132
Grace Cemetery	33.95343	-92.34653
Greenwood Cemetery	33.94482	-92.19014
Gum Grove Cemetery	33.89982	-92.33875
Harlow Cemetery	33.91102	-92.17663
Humble Hope Cemetery	33.92037	-92.19348
Johnson Cemetery	33.9001	-92.37598
Kingsland Cemetery	33.86696	-92.30197
Kingsland Cemetery East	33.86871	-92.28903
Liberty Hill Cemetery	33.89368	-92.14996
Lindsey Cemetery	33.92442	-92.15667
Little Family Cemetery	None	None
Macedonia Cemetery	34.05482	-92.16014
Macedonia Cemetery	33.86899	-92.12486
Marks Cemetery	33.78538	-92.24347
McCoy Cemetery	33.76038	-92.30014
Moores Cemetery	33.98454	-92.21653
Morgan Cemetery	33.7876	-92.28097
Moseley Cemetery	33.76093	-92.19292
New Cemetery	33.93871	-92.1907
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery	34.03593	-92.05013
Prosperity Cemetery	33.81788	-92.03346
Randolph Cemetery	34.04018	-92.21598
Reaves Cemetery	None	None
Rowell Cemetery	None	None
Saint John Cemetery	33.74371	-92.18514
Searcy Cemetery	33.77355	-91.99287
Seymore Cemetery	33.90815	-92.31487
Shady Grove Cemetery	33.72788	-92.16847
Tolson Cemetery	33.94704	-92.39931
Union Cemetery	33.74371	-91.99263
Union Cemetery Number 2	33.76076	-91.99747
Varnell Cemetery	33.91404	-92.18472
Wesley Chapel Cemetery	34.00291	-92.04083
Wilson Cemetery	34.01287	-92.29181
Wright Cemetery	34.01093	-92.43431
Zachary Cemetery	33.99343	-91.9643

Historical populated places — 21 of 21

Name	Lat	Lon
Annover	33.77344	-91.99319
Bleaker	34.03066	-92.44293
Cabool	34.03343	-92.15014
Como	33.8926	-92.38904
Croak	34.00149	-92.41154
Dialton	34.04232	-92.10236
Draughon	33.87233	-92.2682
Dwight	33.92177	-92.21042
Lehigh	34.00232	-92.09181
Mansville	34.04843	-92.41015
Mason	33.77872	-92.19931
McKinney	33.77844	-92.04736
Meek	33.85233	-92.33904
Peace	34.01454	-92.16403
Pool	33.89482	-92.22848
Radway	33.88566	-92.24459
Ripley	33.8376	-92.09181
Scoby	33.72983	-92.08486
Sneed	33.82872	-92.21042
Trigg	33.96677	-92.38099
Unionville	33.97593	-92.19876

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Marks' Mills	27,239	10.5 km	AR015

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

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