Mt. Carmel Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Carmel Methodist Church is a historic church in rural Dallas County, Arkansas, near the hamlet of Jacinto. It is located northwest of the county seat Fordyce, on County Road 113 just east of Arkansas Highway 9.”
Wikipedia article Mt. Carmel Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1983 · 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. AR 9, Jacinto, 71720
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Dallas County MRA
Township. Princeton township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 83003528 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

44 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Mt. Carmel Methodist Church between 1997 and 2020, burning about 277 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	11
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Natural	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mt. Carmel Methodist Church: 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacinto, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. 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
May 2003	Hail	Jacinto	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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

5 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
Princeton Cemetery	5.1 miles	1984
George W. Mallett House	5.2 miles	1983
Prosperity Baptist Church	5.3 miles	2003
Capt. Goodgame House	7.3 miles	1983
Sardis Methodist Church	7.6 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003528 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallas County	All 41 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.
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.