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Photograph of Prosperity Baptist Church
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Prosperity Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Prosperity Baptist Church is a historic church on Arkansas Highway 8 West in the rural community of Ramsey, Arkansas, located in central Dallas County. The single-story Plain Traditional wood-frame church was built in 1904, with a major addition in 1945 giving it its present T shape.”

Wikipedia article Prosperity Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 2003 · 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. AR 8 W, Ramsey, 71742
  • When was it listed? May 2003
  • Category. building
  • Township. Jackson township
  • National Register reference number. 03000421 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Prosperity Baptist Church between 1997 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5

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
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2004Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2006Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Prosperity Baptist Church: 7 unknowns. 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, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ramsey, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2009Flash FloodRamsey$5,000Dallas County Roads 101 and 103 east of Arkansas Highway 8 were under water.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindRamsey-Trees were downed.
March 2011HailRamsey-no account filed
March 2011HailRamsey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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

3 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
Mt. Carmel Methodist Church5.3 miles1983
Princeton Cemetery7.9 miles1984
Attwood House8.0 miles2023

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000421 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallas CountyAll 41 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.