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Photograph of First Christian Church
Photograph by JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Christian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Saline County · listed in 1980 · 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. 400 Bridge St., Sweet Springs, 65351
  • When was it listed? September 1980
  • Category. building
  • Township. Salt Pond township
  • National Register reference number. 80002394 - 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 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of First Christian Church in 2014, burning about 118 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
29 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Saline 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 First Christian Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saline 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
Sweet Springs Historic District0.2 miles1997
Sweet Springs Historic District Boundary Decrease0.2 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002394 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saline CountyAll 26 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.