Christ the King Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Christ the King Church is a historic church building at Greenwood and South "S" Streets in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a Mission/Spanish revival style church built out of native fieldstone in 1930 to a design by Thompson, Sanders & Ginocchio.”
Wikipedia article Christ the King Church (Fort Smith, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Sebastian County · listed in 1982 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Greenwood Ave. at S. S St., Ft. Smith, 72901
When was it listed? December 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Thompson, Charles L., Design Collection TR
Township. Upper township
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82000936 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Christ the King Church between 1996 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 March 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
15 March 2004	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 December 2020	Arson/incendiarism	65 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
15 October 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 January 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	STATE63
26 January 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Christ the King Church: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aggregate, Light Weight. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Rescolite Company	Aggregate, Light Weight	Past Producer
Fort Smith Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
General Inn Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jeffrey Sand Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Preston Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian 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
Robert Wanslow House	0.2 miles	2018
Oak Cemetery	0.4 miles	1995
South Side Baptist Church	0.5 miles	2006
Dodson Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church	0.7 miles	2006
Fitzgerald Historic District	0.7 miles	2018
Fishback Neighborhood Historic District	0.7 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000936 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sebastian County	All 64 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.