Paradise Missionary Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 9023 State Route 154, Tamaroa, 62888
When was it listed? April 2024
Category. building
Precinct. Tamaroa No. 1 precinct
National Register reference number. 100010212 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Missionary Baptist Church between 2004 and 2007, burning about 254 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	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
27 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	not named
15 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	not named
9 March 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	not named
23 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	225 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	not named
22 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 February 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	not named
2 October 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tamaroa, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 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 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	$60,000	Widespread wind damage occurred across the county. Multiple trees were down, causing numerous power outages. Some entire towns were in the dark, including Tamaroa. At least one tree landed on a structure.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	$50,000	The county sheriff reported structural damage to several house roofs.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	$25,000	Strong winds accompanied a line of storms across Perry County. Two homes sustained major damage in Du Quoin. Some of the damage was due to trees falling on them. A large tree limb fell through one home. Five miles north-northeast of Tamaroa, a tree fell on a home.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	$13,000	Several trees were blown down. At least two large trees were uprooted, including one tree that landed on an outbuilding. Shingles were blown off a nearby house.
October 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	$5,000	A tree was snapped off and fell onto a mobile home on Blue Bird Lane on the south side of Tamaroa.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	$5,000	Trees were reported down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	$5,000	Tree limbs and power lines were down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	$3,000	A large tree was blown down, and large limbs fell on a carport.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	$3,000	Power lines were blown down.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	$1,000	Power lines were blown down.
August 2025	Funnel Cloud	Tamaroa	-	Broadcast media and emergency management reported a cold air funnel with a shower near Tamaroa.
July 2024	Flood	Tamaroa	-	The Little Muddy River rose out of its banks due to torrential rainfall in far northern Perry County and areas upstream. During the evening the river was out of its banks at the IL-154 bridge and covering Thompson Rd.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Tamaroa	-	Water covered Hwy 51 north of Tamaroa. Radar estimated rainfall totals for the morning were 2 inches in Tamaroa and up to 5 inches in far northern portions of Perry County.
July 2024	Flood	Tamaroa	-	The Beaucoup Creek was out of its banks north of IL-154 and onto a few roadways. Creek levels remained very high into the night.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Tamaroa	-	Road flooding was reported in northeastern portions of Perry County, including US-51 north of Tamaroa. Radar estimated rainfall totals between 1445-1615CST were around 3 inches just north of Tamaroa and 1.5-2 inches in Tamaroa.
July 2023	Hail	Tamaroa	-	Half dollar to golf ball size hail was reported.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Tamaroa	-	U.S. Route 51 was closed just south of Tamaroa due to flooding. Water was covering Illinois Route 154 just west of U.S. Highway 51.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Tamaroa	-	Numerous trees were blown down, including two that blocked U.S. Highway 51.
June 2023	Hail	Tamaroa	-	no account filed
February 2006	Hail	Tamaroa	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Tamaroa	-	no account filed
May 2004	Flash Flood	Tamaroa	-	no account filed
May 2003	Flash Flood	Tamaroa	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Tamaroa	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Tamaroa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Du Quoin State Fairgrounds	7.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010212 in Record Group 79.
Perry County	All 3 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.
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.