St. Joseph Catholic Church

Built in 1939 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Joseph Catholic Church is a parish of the Catholic Church located in Tontitown, Arkansas, in the Diocese of Little Rock. The parish and the town were established by a group of Italian Americans led by Father Pietro Bandini, who settled in the area as miners and tenant farmers in the late 19th century.”
Wikipedia article St. Joseph Catholic Church (Tontitown, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1939, Gothic Revival.

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

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 110 E. Henri de Tonti Blvd., Tontitown, 72762
When was it listed? March 2006
Category. building
Township. Tontitown township
When was it built? 1939
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 06000080 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph Catholic Church between 1999 and 2019, burning about 190 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2012	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2012	Natural	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	8.3 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	WILDCAT 1
11 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 St. Joseph Catholic Church: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Unk	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Unk	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tontitown, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
October 2009	Flash Flood	Tontitown	$45,000	Several roads were flooded and closed in and around Fayetteville, Springdale, and Farmington. Several water rescues were conducted as motorists became stranded in high water. Flood water entered at least 2 homes and also damaged part of an assisted living facility in Farmington.
May 2025	Hail	Tontitown	$25,000	Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	$25,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees, snapped power and light poles, and damaged homes and businesses.
August 2012	Hail	Tontitown	$25,000	no account filed
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	$20,000	Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed an outbuilding.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous trees and power lines.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines on Highway 412, just west of I-49.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	-	Strong thunderstorm wind gusts snapped numerous large tree limbs.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2021	Flash Flood	Tontitown	-	Numerous roads were flooded in and around Tontitown.
October 2019	Flash Flood	Tontitown	-	Both directions of Highway 112 between Tontitown and Elm Springs were closed due to flooding.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind on Highway 412.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Tontitown	-	Numerous roads and streets were temporarily under water and impassable in Tontitown due to heavy rainfall.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree limb.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew large tree limbs down.
June 1995	Hail	Tontitown	-	Severe thunderstorms in Washington County produced nickel-size hail two miles south of Tontitown and hail ranging from dime- to nickel-size at Fayetteville.
April 2025	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
September 2025	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
February 2023	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
March 2021	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
March 2015	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Tontitown	-	no account filed
November 1995	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
December 1995	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Tontitown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Tontitown School Building	0.2 miles	1992
Bariola Farm	0.6 miles
Elm Springs Cemetery, Historic Section	1.9 miles	2020
Jackson House	4.3 miles	1982
Johnson House and Mill	4.3 miles	1976
Rabbits Foot Lodge	4.8 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000080 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 160 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.