National Register of Historic Places listings in Arkansas facts for kids

Map of Arkansas counties showing density of National Register listings

This is a list of properties and historic districts in Arkansas that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 2,600 listings in the state, including at least 8 listings in each of Arkansas's 75 counties.

Numbers of properties and districts by county

The following are tallies of current listings in Arkansas on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are not official. Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number.

County # of Sites 1 Arkansas 25 2 Ashley 25 3 Baxter 18 4 Benton 149 5 Boone 20 6 Bradley 16 7 Calhoun 9 8 Carroll 28 9 Chicot 22 10 Clark 41 11 Clay 18 12 Cleburne 17 13 Cleveland 12 14 Columbia 21 15 Conway 52 16 Craighead 18 17 Crawford 31 18 Crittenden 16 19 Cross 19 20 Dallas 39 21 Desha 24 22 Drew 21 23 Faulkner 62 24 Franklin 22 25 Fulton 9 26 Garland 87 27 Grant 10 28 Greene 17 29 Hempstead 29 30 Hot Spring 28 31 Howard 13 32 Independence 42 33 Izard 17 34 Jackson 15 35 Jefferson 74 36 Johnson 31 37 Lafayette 9 38 Lawrence 25 39 Lee 11 40 Lincoln 9 41 Little River 16 42 Logan 43 43 Lonoke 30 44 Madison 10 45 Marion 21 46 Miller 33 47 Mississippi 38 48 Monroe 40 49 Montgomery 13 50 Nevada 16 51 Newton 13 52 Ouachita 37 53 Perry 14 54 Phillips 50 55 Pike 9 56 Poinsett 20 57 Polk 29 58 Pope 37 59 Prairie 14 60.1 Pulaski: Little Rock 235 60.2 Pulaski: Other 75 60.3 Pulaski Total 310 61 Randolph 16 62 St. Francis 12 63 Saline 19 64 Scott 13 65 Searcy 49 66 Sebastian 55 67 Sevier 15 68 Sharp 28 69 Stone 56 70 Union 29 71 Van Buren 16 72 Washington 130 73 White 196 74 Woodruff 17 75 Yell 31 (duplicates): (9) TOTAL 2,617

Arkansas State Capitol, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas Old Main, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, site of the first important test for the implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 Bill Clinton Birthplace, Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas