Camp Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Camp Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on Arkansas Highway 9 in Camp, Arkansas. The church was built in 1878 to serve the Camp Methodist Congregation; it was constructed by local carpenters in a vernacular style with Gothic Revival features.”
Wikipedia article Camp Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1997 · 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. AK 9, approximately 6 mi. E of Salem, Camp, 72520
When was it listed? May 1997
Category. building
Township. South Fork township
National Register reference number. 97000402 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

90 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Camp Methodist Church between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,479 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	16
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	1
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
7 September 2004	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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 Camp Methodist Church: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Magnesium Compounds. 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
Crusher No. 1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Pierce Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rice Farm	Magnesium Compounds	Unknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
April 2008	Flash Flood	Camp	$20,000	A minivan was swept away while trying to cross a low water crossing on Pleasant Valley Road in Camp.
April 2026	Hail	Camp	-	Ping-pong ball sized hail fell north of Salem.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp	-	A tree was blown down along Hwy. 9.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp	-	Trees were downed just southwest of town on Arkansas Highway 9.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp	-	Trees and large tree limbs were downed from Camp to Fryatt and Mammoth Spring.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp	-	Trees downed.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp	-	Power lines down.
August 2008	Hail	Camp	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Camp	-	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Camp	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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

3 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
Castleberry Building	5.5 miles	2021
Saddle Store	6.7 miles	2000
Green Valley Homestead	6.7 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000402 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton County	All 11 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.