Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The First United Methodist Church, once the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is a historic church at Main and Center Sts. in Bald Knob, Arkansas. It is a single story frame structure, finished in brick, that was built in 1927 with a distinctive blend of Craftsman and Tudor Revival elements.”
Wikipedia article Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Bald Knob, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 203 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1992 · 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 Main and Center Sts., Bald Knob, 72010
When was it listed? July 1992
Category. building
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Cypert township
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 91001278 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

96 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church, South between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,760 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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	38
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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 2001	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WHI17887418
21 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White 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 Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Midwest	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Malvern	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 White County

Storms near this property

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bald Knob, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	$50,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
January 2024	Hail	Bald Knob	-	Quarter sized hail fell in the community of Bald Knob, AR.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	Trees and power poles snapped in the town of Bald Knob.
March 2023	Flash Flood	Bald Knob	-	Numerous accidents occurred in areas of high water.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	A building was destroyed due to severe thunderstorm winds.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	Severe thunderstorm winds took down several powerlines in Bald Knob.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported just north of Bald Knob.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	Straight line winds downed numerous trees to the east of Bald Knob. One of the trees fell onto a house, causing minor damage.
October 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	Several trees were blown down.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	,,,,,,,,Hail (1.75) Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	Some trees were blown down.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	Some power lines were blown down.
July 1995	Hail	Bald Knob	-	Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding in parts of Bald Knob. Several streets were under water for a period of time.
March 2010	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
May 2003	Flash Flood	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
March 2001	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
May 1999	Lightning	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Bald Knob	-	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bald Knob	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Brown House	under 500 feet	1991
Elm Street House	under 500 feet	1991
Missouri Pacific Railway Caboose #928	under 500 feet	2011
Campbell-Chrisp House	under 500 feet	1991
Jameson-Richards Cafe	0.1 miles	1991
Luke Bone Grocery-Boarding House	0.1 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001278 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White County	All 203 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.