Shady Grove Delmar Church and School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Shady Grove Delmar Church and School is a historic church and school building in rural Carroll County, Arkansas, US. The building, a single story wood-frame structure with a gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a distinctive hexagonal tower with belfry and cupola.”
Wikipedia article Shady Grove Delmar Church and School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty. Rd. 933, 1.4 mi. W. of Delmar, Delmar, 72611
When was it listed? January 2015
Category. building
Township. Southeast township
National Register reference number. 14001197 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

63 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove Delmar Church and School between 1998 and 2018, burning about 2,033 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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	26
Debris and open burning	17
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	3
Smoking	2
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
9 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Carroll 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

4 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
Dog Branch School	2.7 miles	1992
Stamps Store	3.1 miles	1990
Kenner Cemetery	3.3 miles	2022
Yell Masonic Lodge Hall	7.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001197 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll County	All 34 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.