Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Zion Presbyterian Church is a historic church on Arkansas Highway 81 in Relfs Bluff, Arkansas. The single story wood-frame structure was built in 1925, and exhibits Craftsman styling with some Classical Revival detailing.”
Wikipedia article Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church (Relfs Bluff, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1988 · 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. AR 81, Relfs Bluff, 71667
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Township. Lone Pine township
National Register reference number. 87002496 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

45 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church between 2001 and 2018, burning about 186 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	DRE8183819
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2011	Natural	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church: 12 past producers. 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	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Relfs Bluff, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 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
February 2013	Hail	Relfs Bluff	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002496 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 10 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.