Mount Olive Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Mount Olive Cumberland Presbyterian Church is one of the oldest existing congregations west of the Mississippi River and its historic church building at the junction of Izard County Roads 12 and 18 in Mount Olive, Arkansas is listed with the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Mount Olive Cumberland Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Izard County · listed in 2004 · 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. Jct. of Izard Cty Rds 12 and 18, Mount Olive, 72556
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. building
Township. Mount Olive township
National Register reference number. 04000503 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

108 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive Cumberland Presbyterian Church between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,961 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 45 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
Arson/incendiarism	45
Debris and open burning	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2

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
7 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	GREEN
6 September 1995	Natural	12 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CHUCK
3 September 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ROSA
15 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BEAR
12 September 2000	Natural	9.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CHRIS
7 August 2012	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Olive Cumberland Presbyterian Church: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Allison Mine & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Allison Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Izard 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
A. C. Jeffery Farmstead	0.6 miles	1994
Jeffery Cemetery	1.3 miles	1999
Boswell School	3.5 miles	1992
Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot	3.7 miles	2004
Vest Cemetery	3.9 miles	2016
Sylvester Smith Farmstead	4.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000503 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Izard County	All 18 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.