Bethel Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Bethel Baptist Church near Clay Village, Kentucky is a historic church which was built in 1899. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Bethel Church (Clay Village, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 142 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 60, 1 mi. W of Clay Village, Clay Village, 40065
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Shelby County MRA
Census division. Harrisonville
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 88002907 - 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bethel Church between 2005 and 2010, burning about 23 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	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LEWIS FIRE
16 February 2009	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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

6 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
Cross Keys Tavern Kitchen and Quarters	0.2 miles	1987
Dr. Nash House	0.9 miles	1988
Tindall House	1.0 miles	1988
Vanatta House	1.1 miles	1988
Thomas Threlkeld House	1.1 miles	1984
Newton House	1.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002907 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shelby County	All 142 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.