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Photograph of Sherrill Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sherrill Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Sherrill United Methodist Church is a historic church at 301 Main Street in Sherrill, Arkansas. Its congregation is one of the oldest and continuously active churches in Jefferson County, Arkansas.”

Wikipedia article Sherrill United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 301 Main St., Sherrill, 72152
  • When was it listed? May 2002
  • Category. building
  • Township. Plum Bayou township
  • National Register reference number. 02000487 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sherrill Methodist Episcopal Church, South between 2001 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2005Debris and open burning49 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 October 2011Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 January 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sherrill Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherrill, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2014: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2014Thunderstorm WindSherrill$30,000A house had damage to its roof and chimney and a storage building was moved off its foundation. Large trees were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSherrill-The corn crop was flattened.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindSherrill-A large tree was blown down in a vacant lot in the middle of town.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSherrill-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a barn.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindSherrill-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindSherrill-no account filed
January 1993HailSherrill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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

5 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery1.9 miles2010
Tucker School3.3 miles2005
Island of Hope Chapel4.2 miles2024
Plum Bayou Homesteads6.6 miles1975
Roselawn7.7 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000487 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 80 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.