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Galatia Church

Built in 1886. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Baxter County · category: Building · built in 1886.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. West side AR 5, north of jct. with Havner Rd., Norfolk, 72658
  • Category. building
  • District. District 11
  • When was it built? 1886
  • National Register reference number. 100005579 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

89 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Galatia Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,162 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsFLOWER CREEK
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsMATNEY
9 July 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Baxter 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 Galatia 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 Baxter 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Wolf Cemetery2.0 miles2013
Wolf Cemetery2.1 miles2013
Horace Mann School Historic District2.5 miles2007
Sid Hutcheson Building2.7 miles2014
Davis House2.8 miles1995
Jacob Wolf House2.8 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100005579 in Record Group 79.
Baxter CountyAll 25 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.