Tillar, Frank, Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“The Tillar Methodist Church, formerly known as the Frank Tillar Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the Tillar United Methodist Church, is a historic church building on West Railroad Street in Tillar, Arkansas. The church, a story brick Classical Revival building, was built in 1913 by the Pine Bluff firm of Monk and Ritchie.”
Wikipedia article Tillar Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Drew County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 97000525 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Tillar, Frank, Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South
between 2001 and 2009, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Tillar, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail.
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.
Thunderstorm winds moved several cotton trailers. An airplane was moved and an airport hangar was also damaged. Several mobile homes were also moved off their supports slightly.
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
4 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.
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.
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.
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