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Washington County, Arkansas

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
156historic places
—earliest paper
1828formed
245,871pop. 2020
108cemeteries
2CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 156 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Fayetteville, Canehill, Prairie Grove.

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 Washington titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

99 of 156 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

156 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Agriculture Building-University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFayettevilleBuilding1992
Anderson, John and Elisabeth, HouseFayettevilleBuilding2023
Anderson-Taylor HouseFayettevilleBuilding2021
Bank of Fayetteville Building, OldFayettevilleBuilding1994
Bean CemeteryLincolnSite1994
Beely-Johnson American Legion Post 139SpringdaleBuilding2007
Bethlehem CemeteryCanehillSite2000
Black Oak CemeteryGreenlandSite1998
Blackburn HouseCanehillBuilding1982
Borden HousePrairie GroveBuilding1977
Brown Bluff (3WA10)WoolseySite1987
Business Administration Building-University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFayettevilleBuilding1992
Butterfield Overland Mail Route Fayetteville Segments Historic DistrictFayettevilleStructure2009
Butterfield Overland Mail Route SegmentStricklerStructure2010
Cane Hill BattlefieldCane HillSite1994
Canehill CemeteryCanehillSite1982
Canehill College BuildingCanehillBuilding1982
Carnall, Ella, HallFayettevilleBuilding1982
Carroll, A. R., BuildingCanehillBuilding1982
Chemistry Building-University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFayettevilleBuilding1992
Chi Omega Chapter HouseFayettevilleBuilding1995
Chi Omega Greek Theatre-University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFayettevilleStructure1992
Clack HouseFayettevilleBuilding2006
Clark, Joe Marsh and Maxine, HouseFayettevilleBuilding2020
Clinton HouseFayettevilleBuilding2010
Combs, Nathan, HouseFayettevilleBuilding1976
County Road 6 BridgeCincinnatiStructure2004
Deepwood HouseFayettevilleBuilding2018
Devil's Den State Park Historic DistrictWinslowDistrict1994
Durst, David and Mary Margaret, HouseFayettevilleBuilding2015
Earle HouseCanehillBuilding1982
Edmiston, D. N., HouseCanehillBuilding1982
Edmiston, John, HouseCanehillBuilding1982
Edmiston, Zeb, HouseCanehillBuilding1982
Ellis BuildingFayettevilleBuilding2019
Elm Springs Cemetery, Historic SectionElm SpringsSite2020
Evansville-Dutch Mills Road BridgeDutch MillsStructure2008
Evergreen CemeteryFayettevilleSite1997
Fayetteville Confederate CemeteryFayettevilleSite1993
Fayetteville Fire Department Fire Station 1FayettevilleBuilding2015
Fayetteville Fire Department Fire Station 3FayettevilleBuilding2015
Fayetteville National CemeteryFayettevilleSite1999
Fayetteville Veterans Administration HospitalFayettevilleDistrict2012
Fishback SchoolSpringdaleBuilding1992
Fitzgerald Station and FarmsteadSpringdaleBuilding2003
Fitzhugh, Vernon, HouseFayettevilleBuilding2017
Frisco DepotFayettevilleBuilding1988
Goff Farm Stone BridgeFayettevilleSite2010
Gordon, Troy, HouseFayettevilleBuilding1978
Gregg HouseFayettevilleBuilding1974
Guisinger BuildingFayettevilleBuilding1984
Hantz HouseFayettevilleBuilding2001
Happy Hollow FarmFayettevilleBuilding1986
Headquarters HouseFayettevilleBuilding1971
Hemingway House and BarnFayettevilleBuilding1982
Highway B-29 BridgePrairie GroveStructure2008
Hindman Hall MuseumPrairie GroveBuilding2020
Home Economics Building-University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFayettevilleBuilding1992
House at 712 N. Mill StreetSpringdaleBuilding1992
Illinois River Bridge at Phillips FordSavoyStructure2009
Jackson HouseFayettevilleBuilding1982
Johnson BarnFayettevilleBuilding1990
Johnson House and MillJohnsonBuilding1976
Johnson Switch BuildingJohnsonBuilding1999
Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, II, Homestead DistrictFayettevilleDistrict2019
Jones, E. Fay and Gus, HouseFayettevilleBuilding2000
Lafayette Street OverpassFayettevilleStructure1995
Lake Wedington Historic DistrictSavoyDistrict1995
Lake-Bell HousePrairie GroveBuilding1974
Leach, R.L., Grocery StoreDutch MillsBuilding2018
Lewis Brothers BuildingFayettevilleBuilding1987
Magnolia Company Filling StationFayettevilleBuilding1978
Maguire-Williams HouseElkinsBuilding1995
Maple Street OverpassFayettevilleStructure1995
McClellan, E. W., HouseCanehillBuilding1982
McNair, Wiley P., HouseFayettevilleBuilding2016
Meadow Spring Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict2019
Men's Gymnasium-University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFayettevilleBuilding1992
Methodist ManseCanehillBuilding1982
Mineral Springs Community BuildingWest ForkBuilding1998
Moore HouseCanehillBuilding1982
Morrow FarmsteadMorrowBuilding2021
Morton, Mack, BarnApplebyBuilding2005
Mount Nord Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict1982
Mount Sequoyah CottagesFayettevilleDistrict2012
Mount Sequoyah Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict2022
Mrs. Young BuildingFayettevilleBuilding1999
Noll, Willis, HouseFayettevilleBuilding2005
North Garvin Drive Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict2022
North Mock Street Historic DistrictPrairie GroveDistrict2018
Old Main, University of ArkansasFayettevilleBuilding1970
Old Post OfficeFayettevilleBuilding1974
Old Springdale High SchoolSpringdaleBuilding1994
Parkview ApartmentsFayettevilleDistrict2026
Patrick, Dr. James. HouseFayettevilleBuilding2017
Prairie Grove Airlight Outdoor Telephone BoothPrairie GroveBuilding2015
Prairie Grove Battlefield (Boundary Increase II)Prairie GroveSite2005
Prairie Grove Battlefield (Boundary Increase)Prairie GroveSite1992
Prairie Grove Battlefield ParkPrairie GroveSite1970
Prairie Grove Cemetery Historic SectionPrairie GroveSite2016
Prairie Grove Commercial Historic DistrictPrairie GroveDistrict2018
Presbyterian CenterFayettevilleBuilding2022
Price Produce and Service StationSpringdaleBuilding2011
Pyeatte Mill SiteCanehillSite1982
Pyeatte, Henry, HouseCanehillBuilding1982
Rabbits Foot LodgeSpringdaleBuilding1986
Ridge HouseFayettevilleBuilding1972
Rieff’s Chapel CemeteryFayettevilleSite2021
Routh-Bailey HouseFayettevilleBuilding1989
Segraves, Warren, HouseFayettevilleBuilding2017
Shelton, Lynn, American Legion Post No. 27FayettevilleBuilding1996
Shiloh ChurchSpringdaleBuilding1975
Shiloh Historic DistrictSpringdaleDistrict1978
Skillern HouseFayettevilleBuilding2015
Smith, Tom, HouseElkinsBuilding1992
Smyth, Peter, HouseFayettevilleBuilding2002
Son's ChapelFayettevilleBuilding2003
Southern Mercantile BuildingPrairie GroveBuilding1990
Spring Valley School District 120 BuildingSpring ValleyBuilding1992
Springdale Poultry Industry Historic DistrictSpringdaleDistrict2011
Stokenbury CemeteryElkinsSite2010
Stone HouseFayettevilleBuilding1970
Strengthen the Arm of Liberty MonumentFayettevilleObject2012
Student Union Building-University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFayettevilleBuilding1992
Tharp HouseFayettevilleBuilding2004
Tilley, John, HousePrairie GroveBuilding1978
Tisdale Store-Goshen Post OfficeGoshenBuilding2024
Tontitown School BuildingTontitownBuilding1992
Tweedy-Puntch HouseSpringdaleBuilding2019
Twin Bridges Historic DistrictMorrowDistrict1994
US 71, Greenland Segment, OldGreenlandStructure2004
United Presbyterian Church of CanehillCanehillBuilding1982
University of Arkansas Campus Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict2009
Vernon & Moore-McIlroy Produce WarehouseFayettevilleBuilding2020
Vest, John S., HouseFayettevilleBuilding1979
Villa RosaFayettevilleBuilding1990
Wade-Heerwagen HouseFayettevilleBuilding1978
Walker Family PlotFayettevilleSite2012
Walker HouseFayettevilleBuilding1975
Walker, Vol, Library-University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFayettevilleBuilding1992
Walnut Grove Presbyterian ChurchFarmingtonBuilding1995
Washington County CourthouseFayettevilleBuilding1972
Washington County JailFayettevilleBuilding1978
Washington-Willow Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict1980
Washington-Willow Historic District (Boundary Increase)FayettevilleDistrict1995
Waterman-Archer HouseFayettevilleBuilding1999
Weathers HouseSpringdaleBuilding2023
Welch, William, HouseCanehillBuilding1982
West Dickson Street Commercial Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict2007
White River Bridge at ElkinsElkinsStructure2008
William and Marion Orton HouseFayettevilleBuilding2025
Williams, John G., House #2FayettevilleBuilding2020
Wilson Park Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict1995
Wilson-Pittman-Campbell-Gregory HouseFayettevilleBuilding1980
Winslow Commercial Historic DistrictWinslowDistrict2022
Woolsey Farmstead CemeteryFayettevilleSite2020

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Washington was formed in 1828 (1828-11-01) from LOVELEY (Arkansas Territory, extinct).

WASHINGTON created by Arkansas Territory from LOVELEY (Arkansas Territory, extinct) and Non-County Area 3; included territory that was formerly part of IZARD. Act passed 17 Oct 1828; took effect 1 Nov 1828.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Washington County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

246k124k2,18218301840188019201930196020002020
183018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
2,1827,14814,67323,84434,25635,46841,11449,97955,797100,494157,715245,871

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

108 cemeteries and 12 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 108 listed
NameLatLon
Academy Cemetery35.79578-94.48308
Baker Cemetery35.86796-94.29111
Baptist Ford Cemetery35.97997-94.17307
Bean Cemetery35.94869-94.41715
Beatty Cemetery35.98563-94.45271
Beatty Cemetery36.02174-94.4716
Bell Cemetery36.05721-94.33576
Bethesda Cemetery35.87914-94.45326
Bethlehem Cemetery35.86821-94.45933
Billingsley Cemetery35.91358-94.27202
Bluff Cemetery36.19302-94.13274
Boone Cemetery35.98802-94.19163
Boone Cemetery36.01636-94.03931
Buckner Cemetery36.05591-94.1252
Burkhead Cemetery36.01257-94.03936
Burkshed Cemetery36.2155-93.91135
Campbell Church Cemetery35.95841-94.19012
Canehill Cemetery35.91389-94.3993
Cemetery Hill Memorial Park36.01764-94.23598
Cheatham Cemetery35.95096-94.40784
Coil Cemetery35.7898-94.10594
Collier Cemetery35.79411-94.15556
Combs Cemetery36.04025-94.14133
Confederate Cemetery36.06134-94.15268
Cox Cemetery35.86561-94.39882
Crawford Cemetery36.02754-94.39455
Culwell Cemetery36.07674-93.96852
Davis Cemetery36.15268-94.00853
Dobbs Cemetery35.7641-94.42137
Dowell Cemetery36.03786-94.18659
Drake Cemetery35.89782-94.44894
Dunagan Cemetery35.80287-94.45015
Dunkard Cemetery35.77758-94.32187
Echo Dell - Burks Cemetery36.19564-94.29505
Edmiston Cemetery35.86038-94.42358
Elm Springs Cemetery36.20679-94.22991
English Cemetery35.86619-94.44743
Evergreen Cemetery36.0648-94.16909
Fairview Memorial Cemetery36.08573-94.13792
Fayetteville National Cemetery36.05282-94.16858
Fayetteville National Cemetery36.05284-94.16854
Forest Park Cemetery36.20271-94.1363
Ganderville Cemetery35.96924-94.50021
Garrett Creek Cemetery35.77134-94.37929
Goddard Cemetery35.79869-94.46382
Goshen Cemetery36.10266-93.9905
Harold Cemetery36.07381-94.50691
Head Cemetery36.16048-94.01205
Hester Cemetery36.05146-94.09047
Holcomb Cemetery36.18299-94.14397
Howell Cemetery35.90578-94.28381
Illinois Chapel Cemetery35.9736-94.26434
James Leeper Gravesite36.04033-94.13992
Joyce Cemetery36.16407-93.97909
Kelton Cemetery35.79811-94.13865
Kidd Cemetery35.90035-94.40437
Kings Cemetery35.99396-94.07797
Lewis Cemetery35.79297-94.48779
Liberty Cemetery35.78452-94.29131
Mateer Cemetery36.04746-94.3831
Mayfield Cemetery36.13263-93.957
Mc Donald Cemetery35.88077-94.28003
Mcclellan Cemetery35.90139-94.40642
Miller Robb Cemetery36.0182-94.19504
Mineral Springs Cemetery35.92681-94.13503
Morriss Cemetery36.18276-93.91045
Morrow Cemetery35.84912-94.33828
Mount Comfort Cemetery36.09336-94.21524
New Hope Cemetery35.90224-94.34928
Norwood Cemetery36.10052-94.47453
Old Union Cemetery36.02966-94.50559
Oxford Bend Cemetery36.10202-94.02964
Parks Cemetery35.89896-94.29076
Parks Cemetery35.82602-94.11048
Reese Cemetery35.87853-94.38321
Reese Cemetery35.94929-94.05543
Richardson Cemetery35.9184-94.05297
Rieffs Chapel Cemetery36.01591-94.20853
Rose Cemetery36.03464-94.35662
Round Mountain Cemetery36.06646-94.01742
Historical populated places — 12 of 12
NameLatLon
Barbara36.09175-94.16187
Blewford36.16897-94.33132
Carter35.92702-94.05215
Cross Roads36.18924-94.16132
Jabur36.05897-94.31132
McGuire36.02647-94.00825
Porters Store35.85925-94.00437
Rickert36.0373-94.34327
Ruckers Grove36.05841-94.12243
Sexton35.91536-94.50688
Summit36.06536-94.08881
Sydenham36.05508-94.0252

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.

BattlefieldStudy acresDist.Site ID
Prairie Grove14,7099.8 kmAR005
Cane Hill5,19118.3 kmAR004

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

Historical markers

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