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Yadkin Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Yadkin Church is a historic church building on Upper Janes Creek Road in rural Randolph County, Arkansas, north of Ravenden Springs. Built about 1894, it is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior.”

Wikipedia article Yadkin Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Randolph County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

122 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Yadkin Church between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,805 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use41 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Debris and open burning35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Randolph 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 Yadkin Church: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Randolph 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
Ravenden Springs School4.6 miles2004
Looney- French House7.0 miles2004
Rice-Upshaw House7.5 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100004003 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Randolph CountyAll 19 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.