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One of 10 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Cummins Prison Chapel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 2540 Highway 388, Grady, 71643
- When was it listed? April 2024
- Category. building
- Township. Auburn township
- National Register reference number. 100010309 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cummins Prison Chapel between 2006 and 2015, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grady, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Flood | Grady | $750,000 | Widespread areal flooding occurred. Nineteen homes in Gould were damaged. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Grady | $750,000 | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grady | $75,000 | A home and several outbuildings were damaged. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grady | $50,000 | Many trees and power lines were blown down. Several homes were damaged. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grady | $500 | Thunderstorm winds blew down tree limbs. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Grady | - | Golf-ball sized hail fell in the town of Grady. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Grady | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Grady | - | no account filed |
| December 2010 | Hail | Grady | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grady | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Grady | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Grady | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grady | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Rice Family Cemetery | 1.7 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010309 in Record Group 79. |
| Lincoln County | All 10 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.
- 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.