Union Church and School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Union Church and School is a historic combination church and school in rural Logan County, Arkansas. It is located northeast of Paris, on the south side of Union Road at its junction with Clayton Lane.”
Wikipedia article Union Church and School (Paris, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2158 Union Rd., Paris, 72855
When was it listed? June 2005
Category. building
Township. Clark township
National Register reference number. 05000497 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

44 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Union Church and School between 1997 and 2017, burning about 293 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
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 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BIG CARTER
10 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Union Church and School: 6 producers, 6 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Logan County Building Stone Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone	Past Producer
Unk Quarries 2	Stone	Past Producer
Magazine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Patterson	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
S & W Rk Qy	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
B & G Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Duffield Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Garland Cotton Sand & Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gilbert Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Logan County New Blaine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paris, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 29 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$2,700,000	Six houses suffered major damage, 20 had moderate damage, and 27 had minor damage. Four businesses had major damage, including a car dealership, two shop buildings, and a lumber company. At the car dealership, 37 cars were damaged, primarily due to flying debris and the collapse of three concrete block walls of an adjacent building. Three other businesses suffered moderate damage, and six had minor damage. Many trees were blown down, some of which fell on houses. Arkansas' second-oldest cherry tree was toppled. Many power lines were blown down and about 40 utility poles had to be replaced.
May 2011	Flood	Paris	$250,000	no account filed
April 2011	Flood	Paris	$100,000	Widespread areal flooding occurred.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$75,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down. Part of the roof was blown off a house.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$40,000	Several trees were blown down. One of the trees collapsed a wooden carport that was attached to a house, crushing a car beneath the carport.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$20,000	A house had much of its metal roof torn off. Power lines and numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$15,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Paris, and just east of town.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
July 1994	Hail	Paris	$5,000	Hail up to nickel size caused some damage at a hog farm.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Winds estimated to be 65 mph with multiple trees down in the area.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A tree was blown down partially on top of a home near Paris.
May 2022	Hail	Paris	-	Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in Paris by the EM.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Trees and power lines were reported down across the western portion of Paris.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A storm spotter estimated 60 mph winds, power outages and power lines down in the city.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A spotter reported downed power lines north of Hwy 22.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The Emergency Manager reported a wind gust of 60 mph.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A wind gust of 60 mph was estimated at Paris.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Several trees were blown down across Highway 309.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Numerous trees were downed from Paris to north of Subiaco toward Morrison Bluff.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Numerous trees were down in the town of Paris.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A large tree was uprooted.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Several trees were down as a result of wind gusts to 60 mph.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Trees were damaged and some shingles were blown off of roofs.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Large limbs were down in Paris.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Paris	-	Several thunderstorms, moving over the same area in a short period of time, produced localized flash flooding in Paris. Several streets were flooded briefly and impassible before the water receded.
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Several homes in the area sustained minor roof damage.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees. Several buildings and homes also sustained roof and window damage.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and large tree limbs.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
May 2021	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Schriver House	1.8 miles	1995
Smith Hospital	4.2 miles	1994
Paris Commercial Historic District	4.2 miles	2009
Methodist Episcopal Church, South	4.2 miles	1995
Paris Post Office	4.2 miles	1998
First Christian Church	4.3 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000497 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 44 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.