First Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The First Baptist Church is a historic church at the junction of Pine and Carruth Streets in Marvell, Arkansas. It is a large brick masonry structure, with vernacular Collegiate Gothic features.”
Wikipedia article First Baptist Church (Marvell, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 1991 · 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. Jct. of Pine and Carruth Sts., Marvell, 72366
When was it listed? May 1991
Category. building
Township. Hickory Ridge township
National Register reference number. 91000587 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church between 1999 and 2008, burning about 113 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
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
18 November 1999	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 November 2000	Arson/incendiarism	90 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 October 2000	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 January 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this property

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marvell, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
January 1996	Tornado (F1)	Marvell	3 hurt, $30,000	no account filed
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Marvell	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds caused significant damage to some metal buildings, a house, and some very large trees. The hardwood trees were approximately 3 feet wide. One metal building had a portion of the roof peeled up as well as 2 garage doors blown in. The grain bins behind the metal building sustained dents near the top due to the winds. The house was damaged by one of the large trees falling on top of it. Two mobile homes were damaged as well with their roofs blown off. Additional smaller trees were snapped in the vicinity.
May 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Marvell	$40,000	A tornado touched down briefly just west-northwest of Marvell. Several trees and power lines were knocked down. A supply feed store was damaged as the tornado crossed Highway 49.
March 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Marvell	$25,000	The tornado caused intermittent damage from west-southwest of Marvell into the town of Marvell. The tornado downed power poles and damaged a small outbuilding along Highway 1 southwest of Marvell. In town, the tornado bent street lights and a power pole. Tree limbs were broken and a baseball field scoreboard was knocked down. Peak estimated wind was 80 mph.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marvell	$25,000	The roof of the Boys, Girls, Adult Community Development Center was blown off. Several trees were blown down.
April 2006	Hail	Marvell	$10,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Marvell	$5,000	Some trees were knocked down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marvell	$4,000	Trees were knocked into power lines, 2 miles south of Marvell from straight line winds.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Marvell	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in the Marvell community.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marvell	$2,000	A large tree was blown down and fell on a power line.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Marvell	$1,000	Several large branches down around town.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Marvell	$1,000	One road was flooded.
November 2007	Hail	Marvell	$1,000	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Marvell	$10	no account filed
March 2001	Hail	Marvell	$10	no account filed
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marvell	-	Straight line winds knocked down numerous trees and power lines across county roads near Marvell. Approximately, one hundred people were without power in Marvell immediately after the storm. One mobile home sustained minor damage on County Road 113, outside of Marvell.
June 2023	Hail	Marvell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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
Mayo House	under 500 feet	1997
Turner Historic District	5.2 miles	2006
Phillips County Penal Farm Historic District	6.2 miles	2007
Little Cypress Creek Bridge	6.3 miles	1995
Richardson-Turner House	7.3 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000587 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Phillips County	All 60 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.
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.