Fredonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Fredonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in Fredonia, Kentucky, also known as Unity Missionary Baptist Church, is a historic church on U.S. It was built in 1892 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Fredonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Caldwell County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. US 641, Fredonia, 42411
When was it listed? August 1985
Category. building
Census division. Fredonia
National Register reference number. 85001746 - 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fredonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church between 1999 and 2016, burning about 48 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	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
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
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2016	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	R WHITE ROAD
29 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 November 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 November 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CRAYNE CEM. RD.
8 October 1999	Smoking	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Fredonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite. 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	Recorded
Fredonia Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Pigmy Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Tabb Group Fluorspar Mines	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite	Producer	1903
Western Kentucky District	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	1914
Blue Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Eva Tanguay Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Lafayette Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc	Past Producer	1888, 1900
Marble Group	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc	Prospect	Underground
Vinson Deposit	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc	Prospect	1962
Beavers Fluorite Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fredonia, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 1995	Tornado (F2)	Fredonia	$500,000	The damage path began in extreme southern Crittenden County two miles south of Frances, and it ended four miles east of Fredonia in Caldwell County. The track was through sparsely populated farm country, so damage figures were relatively low for such a long track tornado. At each of five farmsteads in the direct path of the tornado, farm buildings were destroyed. Destroyed farm buildings included hen houses, hog sheds, several barns, and storage sheds. The worst damage, apparently of F2 intensity, occurred at a farm one mile south of Fredonia. About $250,000 damage occurred at this farmstead alone, where a 70 foot tall concrete silo was sheared in two. Elsewhere along the track, barns were flattened, a garage was turned sideways, and a roof was lifted off a house. Scraps of building debris were blown over a mile. A storage building at an appliance store was moved 20 to 30 feet, exposing new appliances for sale. At one residence, a child was moved off its bed moments before a 2x4 blew through the window into the child's bedroom. Damage to outdoor objects and equipment was extensive. A 1,000 gallon tank was blown away, and grain bins were moved. Fences and satellite dishes were destroyed. Damage to expensive farm equipment, such as combines and hay balers, was moderate. Along wooded sections of the damage path, every tree was snapped or uprooted. Utility poles were snapped or blown over.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fredonia	$25,000	Widespread damaging wind gusts from 60 to 70 mph raked parts of Caldwell County. The mesonet site two miles southeast of Princeton measured a wind gust to 67 mph. A trained spotter in Princeton estimated gusts to 65 mph. Near Fredonia, two barn roofs were blown off, blocking County Road 902 East. On Highway 293 north of Princeton, a carport was blown down, and windows were blown out of a building.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Fredonia	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fredonia	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines at Princeton and Fredonia.
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Fredonia	$4,000	no account filed
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Fredonia	$2,000	Large branches were broken.
February 2023	Flash Flood	Fredonia	-	Kentucky Route 91 was closed between Princeton and Fredonia due to flooding. A rainfall total of 2.51 inches was reported at Princeton for the 24-hour period.
March 2023	Hail	Fredonia	-	Quarter-size hail was reported by the public and relayed through a local tv station.
June 2016	Flood	Fredonia	-	A couple of inches of water was over Highway 91.
March 2008	Flood	Fredonia	-	Water was over many roads, but no closures were reported.
June 1998	Hail	Fredonia	-	Numerous occurrences of golf ball size hail were reported in northern Caldwell County.
September 2023	Hail	Fredonia	-	no account filed
November 2013	Hail	Fredonia	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Fredonia	-	no account filed
October 2006	Heavy Rain	Fredonia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	State Road-Hill Cemetery Segment	2.4 miles	2020
	State Road-Hill Cemetery Segment	2.6 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001746 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Caldwell 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.