Harmony Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Harmony Presbyterian Church is a historic church on the north side of Highway 103, approximately 8 miles (13 km) north of Clarksville in Harmony, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure with a stone cut basement, built out of cut stone blocks and covered by a hip roof.”
Wikipedia article Harmony Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1994 · 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. AR 103, N side, approximately 8 mi. N of Clarksville, Harmony, 72830
When was it listed? December 1994
Category. building
Township. Batson township
National Register reference number. 94001411 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Harmony Presbyterian Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 640 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MAVERICK
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2000	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	EAGLE NEST
11 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Harmony Presbyterian Church: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk Quarries 2	Stone	Past Producer
Unk Quarries 2	Stone	Past Producer
Unk Quarries 3	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harmony, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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	Harmony	$25,000	Trees were down across western portions of the county.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Harmony	$5,000	Trees were blown down on Arkansas 103.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Harmony	-	In the community of Harmony at the intersection of AR state highway 103 and 164, several tree limbs and powerlines were blown down along with a metal building that was blown down.
March 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Harmony	-	This tornado started southwest of the town of Harmony, moving northeast through town, eventually lifting northeast of Harmony. Mainly tree damage was noted, with tree limbs snapped, uprooted, or trunks snapped. Some light roof damage was also noted to some structures.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Harmony	-	The Johnson County EM reported trees and power lines down in the Hunt community, Harmony community, and the Oak Grove/Batson areas of Johnson County.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Harmony	-	A few trees were reported down along County Road 4100.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Harmony	-	Trees were reported down. A roof was damaged on a mobile home.
June 1994	Hail	Harmony	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
May 2013	Hail	Harmony	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Harmony	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Harmony	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Harmony	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Harmony	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Harmony	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Harmony	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Tankersley-Stewart House	4.7 miles	1994
Raymond Munger Memorial Chapel-University of the Ozarks	7.7 miles	1993
Voorhees School	7.7 miles	2018
Clarksville Confederate Monument	7.7 miles	1999
Clarksville National Guard Armory	7.8 miles	2007
Clarksville High School Building No. 1	7.8 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001411 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson County	All 35 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.