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Photograph of Lafayette Methodist Church
Photograph by Brian Stansberry, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lafayette Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Christian County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · 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. Off SR 107, Lafayette, 42254
  • When was it listed? April 1979
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Christian County MRA
  • Census division. LaFayette
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 79003616 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lafayette Methodist Church between 2007 and 2010, burning about 180 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 August 2007Recreation and ceremony48 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined130 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOMPTON RD.

Every fire recorded in Christian County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lafayette Methodist Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Model ProspectIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Christian 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

2 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Elliott Place1.0 miles1979
Elliott Place1.6 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79003616 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Christian CountyAll 51 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.