Saint Anthony's Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Saint Anthony's Catholic Church is a historic church building at 470 North Wilson Avenue, just north of the crossroads community of Ratcliff, Arkansas. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and weatherboard siding.”
Wikipedia article Saint Anthony's Catholic Church (Ratcliff, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1986 · 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. N of AR 22, Ratcliff, 72951
When was it listed? August 1986
Category. building
Township. Six Mile township
National Register reference number. 86001885 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

47 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Saint Anthony's Catholic Church between 1997 and 2018, burning about 570 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	70 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Anthony's Catholic Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dixie Stone Co	Flagstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ratcliff, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Ratcliff	$25,000	This is the second segment of a six-segment tornado. (The first, third, and fifth segments occurred in Franklin County in the Tulsa County Warning Area.) The tornado moved out of Franklin County east-northeast of Branch and entered Logan County 2.17 miles west-northwest of Ratcliff. The tornado clipped a small corner of Logan County, snapping and uprooting trees. The tornado then exited Logan County 1.86 miles northwest of Ratcliff and moved back into Franklin County south-southeast of Peter Pender.
April 2022	Hail	Ratcliff	-	Golf ball size hail was reported on the Logan/Franklin county line west of Ratcliff.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ratcliff	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and knocked down a radio tower.
April 2004	Hail	Ratcliff	-	no account filed
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ratcliff	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson Road-Short Mountain Segment	4.2 miles	2008
Dr. Stephen N. Chism House	7.4 miles	1994
Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson Road-Short Mountain Segment	7.8 miles	2008
Short Mountain Creek Bridge	7.8 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001885 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 44 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.