List of National Historic Landmarks in Arkansas


The National Historic Landmarks in Arkansas represent Arkansas's history from the Louisiana Purchase through the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. It contains the landmarks designated by the U.S. Federal Government for the U.S. state of Arkansas. There are 16 National Historic Landmarks in Arkansas. Another NHL was formerly listed in the state but was moved to Oakland, California.
This page includes a list of National Park Service-administered historic areas in Arkansas.

National Historic Landmarks

This is a complete list of the 17 National Historic Landmarks in Arkansas.

Historic areas administered by the National Park Service

, National Historical Parks, National Monuments, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are four of these in Arkansas. The National Park Service lists these four together with the NHLs in the state, The Arkansas Post National Memorial, the Fort Smith National Historic Site and the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site are also NHLs and are listed above. The remaining one is:
Landmark name
ImageDate establishedLocationCountyDescription
Pea Ridge National Military Park20 July 1956Pea RidgeBentonSite of Battle of Pea Ridge, March 7 and 8, 1862, a Union victory in the American Civil War

Other National Park Service-administered areas in Arkansas are the Buffalo National River and the Hot Springs National Park.