---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 430"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "430"
heading: "Kings Mountain National Military Park; establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/430"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §430. Kings Mountain National Military Park; establishment


In order to commemorate the Battle of Kings Mountain, which was fought on the 7th day of October 1780, the Kings Mountain battle ground, in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of South Carolina, including such adjacent and contiguous lands as may be useful and proper in effectually carrying out the purpose of sections 430, [430a](/usc/16/430a.md), and [430b](/usc/16/430b.md) to [430e](/usc/16/430e.md) of this title, is declared to be a national military [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), to be known as the Kings Mountain National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), when such land including said battle ground, shall become the property of the United States.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 437, § 1, 46 Stat. 1508.)