New Hope Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“New Hope Baptist Church is a historic church located four miles west of Beatrice, Alabama in the unincorporated community of Natchez. The Greek Revival building was built in 1870.”
Wikipedia article New Hope Baptist Church (Beatrice, Alabama), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. About 4 mi. off Monroe Cty Rd. 50 near old Natchez, Beatrice, 36425
When was it listed? July 2005
Category. building
Census division. Beatrice
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05000646 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of New Hope Baptist Church between 1994 and 2019, burning about 483 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2016	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160909-17
24 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190912-14
31 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2000	Natural	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2000	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	247 4TH STREET, AL

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beatrice, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2001	Lightning	Beatrice	$500,000	Lightning struck a tree near Beatrice Elementary School just before school opened. The lightning ran through the roots of the tree and caught the gymnasium on fire. The gym was completely destroyed. The remainder of the school suffered only minor damage from the fire.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Beatrice	$10,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph caused roof damage and blew a steeple off of a church.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Beatrice	$1,500	Several trees and power lines were blown down in Beatrice.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Beatrice	-	High winds downed trees in Beatrice.
April 2011	Funnel Cloud	Beatrice	-	SkyWarn storm spotter reports funnel cloud approximately 1 mile north-northwest of Beatrice community.
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Beatrice	-	Tornado snapped, uprooted or twisted off several hardwood and softwood trees along the path.
October 2004	Hail	Beatrice	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Robbins Hotel	3.1 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000646 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 7 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.