Frenchman's Mountain Methodist Episcopal Church-South and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Frenchman's Mountain Methodist Episcopal Church-South and Cemetery is a historic church in Cato, Arkansas. Located at the junction of Cato, Frenchman Mountain, and Camp Joseph Robinson Roads, it is a single-story wood-frame structure, built in 1880 as a two-story building to house both religious services and the local Masonic lodge.”
Wikipedia article Frenchman's Mountain Methodist Episcopal Church-South and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 383 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Frenchman's Mountain Methodist Episcopal Church--South and Cemetery - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W of Cato on Cato Rd., Cato
When was it listed? October 1976
Category. building
Township. Hill township
National Register reference number. 76000450 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Frenchman's Mountain Methodist Episcopal Church-South and Cemetery between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,852 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	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
2 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2004	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 April 1997	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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
Arkansas Ordnance Plant Guard House	4.4 miles	2006
Immaculate Heart of Mary School	5.6 miles	1993
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church	5.6 miles	1982
Lloyd England Hall	7.2 miles	1997
Sylvan Hills Country Club Golf Course	7.5 miles	2010
St. Joseph's Home	7.7 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000450 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski County	All 383 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.