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Photograph of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Historic Section
Photograph by Brandonrush, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Historic Section

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery is a cemetery on St. The cemetery is located adjacent to a modern church that is located on the site of churches that have served Lake Village's African American population since 1860.”

Wikipedia article New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Chicot County · listed in 1992 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. St. Marys St., Lake Village, 71653
  • When was it listed? September 1992
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Ethnic and Racial Minority Settlement of the Arkansas Delta MPS
  • District. District 5
  • National Register reference number. 92001227 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Historic Section between 2010 and 2013, burning about 97 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined47 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 October 2010Smoking50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Chicot County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Historic Section: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lee Mccort DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chicot County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Village, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLake Village$50,000Thunderstorm winds damaged several roofs.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindLake Village$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew over a trailer.
July 1994HailLake Village-A funnel cloud was sighted by the public over Eudora.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindLake Village-no account filed
April 1994HailLake Village-no account filed
April 1994HailLake Village-no account filed
April 1994HailLake Village-no account filed
April 1994HailLake Village-no account filed
July 1994HailLake Village-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chicot 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lake Village Confederate Monument0.1 miles1996
Dr. E.P. McGehee Infirmary0.2 miles2005
Lake Village Post Office0.2 miles1998
John Tushek Building0.3 miles1993
Lake Village Commercial Historic District0.3 miles2011
Sam Epstein House0.4 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001227 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chicot CountyAll 23 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.