Mount Sterling Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Mount Sterling Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church building near the junction of Choctaw County Road 43 and Choctaw County Road 27 in the rural community of Mount Sterling, Alabama, United States. It is an almost unaltered example of the simple, Greek Revival style popular for rural churches in the mid-19th century.”
Wikipedia article Mount Sterling Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Choctaw County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Near jct. of CR 43 and CR 27, Mount Sterling, 36904
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. building
Census division. Butler
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 86000995 - 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

99 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Mount Sterling Methodist Church between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,678 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Recreation and ceremony	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-28
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Choctaw 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000995 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Choctaw County	All 1 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.