Gravel Hill Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Gravel Hill Baptist Church was a historic church on Gravel Hill Road in rural western White County, Arkansas, United States of America. It was located on Gravel Hill Road in the community of Gravel Hill, south of County Road 26 and west of Searcy.”
Wikipedia article Gravel Hill Baptist Church, 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Gravel Hill Road, Gravel Hill, 72136
When was it listed? July 1992
Category. building
Also known as. White County MPS
Township. Cadron township
National Register reference number. 91001323 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

55 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Gravel Hill Baptist Church between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,047 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	2
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
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Smoking	95 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gravel Hill Baptist Church: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Flagstone, 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
Dugout Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gravel Hill, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
April 2017	Flash Flood	Gravel Hill	$50,000	A bridge was washed out on Foster Rd.
February 2018	Flood	Gravel Hill	-	Four homes in the Floyd-Romance Community off Highway 31 and Gravel Hill Road are being evacuated. Lake Barnett has risen and has endangered homes in the area.
January 2012	Hail	Gravel Hill	-	Quarter to half dollar size hail fell.
March 2010	Hail	Gravel Hill	-	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
Pence-Carmichael Farm, Barn and Root Cellar	3.6 miles	1992
L. D. Hutchinson House	3.7 miles	1992
Ackins House	4.0 miles	1992
Floyd Cotton Gin	4.0 miles	1992
Scott-Davis House	4.7 miles	1992
Roy Harper House	5.7 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001323 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.