First Christian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The First Christian Church is a historic church at 120 East Walnut Street in Paris, Arkansas. It is a T-shaped single-story building, constructed out of stone and concrete between 1930 and 1936 for a congregation of the Disciples of Christ organized about 1890.”
Wikipedia article First Christian Church (Paris, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1995 · 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. 120 E. Walnut St., Paris, 72855
When was it listed? June 1995
Category. building
Township. Short Mountain township
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 95000791 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

63 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of First Christian Church between 1998 and 2020, burning about 334 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	9.4 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	DELTIC FIRE
4 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BIG CARTER
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of First Christian Church: 6 producers, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Logan County Building Stone Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone	Past Producer
Magazine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
S & W Rk Qy	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
B & G Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Duffield Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Garland Cotton Sand & Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gilbert Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Logan County New Blaine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Shoal Creek Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paris, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 29 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash 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
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$2,700,000	Six houses suffered major damage, 20 had moderate damage, and 27 had minor damage. Four businesses had major damage, including a car dealership, two shop buildings, and a lumber company. At the car dealership, 37 cars were damaged, primarily due to flying debris and the collapse of three concrete block walls of an adjacent building. Three other businesses suffered moderate damage, and six had minor damage. Many trees were blown down, some of which fell on houses. Arkansas' second-oldest cherry tree was toppled. Many power lines were blown down and about 40 utility poles had to be replaced.
May 2011	Flood	Paris	$250,000	no account filed
April 2011	Flood	Paris	$100,000	Widespread areal flooding occurred.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$75,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down. Part of the roof was blown off a house.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$40,000	Several trees were blown down. One of the trees collapsed a wooden carport that was attached to a house, crushing a car beneath the carport.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$20,000	A house had much of its metal roof torn off. Power lines and numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$15,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Paris, and just east of town.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
July 1994	Hail	Paris	$5,000	Hail up to nickel size caused some damage at a hog farm.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Winds estimated to be 65 mph with multiple trees down in the area.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A tree was blown down partially on top of a home near Paris.
May 2022	Hail	Paris	-	Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in Paris by the EM.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Trees and power lines were reported down across the western portion of Paris.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A storm spotter estimated 60 mph winds, power outages and power lines down in the city.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A spotter reported downed power lines north of Hwy 22.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The Emergency Manager reported a wind gust of 60 mph.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A wind gust of 60 mph was estimated at Paris.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Several trees were blown down across Highway 309.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Numerous trees were downed from Paris to north of Subiaco toward Morrison Bluff.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Numerous trees were down in the town of Paris.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A large tree was uprooted.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Several trees were down as a result of wind gusts to 60 mph.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Trees were damaged and some shingles were blown off of roofs.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Large limbs were down in Paris.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Paris	-	Several thunderstorms, moving over the same area in a short period of time, produced localized flash flooding in Paris. Several streets were flooded briefly and impassible before the water receded.
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Several homes in the area sustained minor roof damage.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees. Several buildings and homes also sustained roof and window damage.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and large tree limbs.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
May 2021	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Logan County Courthouse, Eastern District	0.1 miles	1976
Methodist Episcopal Church, South	0.2 miles	1995
Paris Post Office	0.2 miles	1998
Logan County Jail, Old	0.3 miles	1993
Evelyn Gill Walker House	0.3 miles	1993
Tolbert E. Gill House	0.3 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000791 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 44 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.