Arkansas's 66 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places

66 Arkansas churches stand on the National Register of Historic Places, the same count as Florida from a state with a third of the churches: 5,689 congregations in the directory. Per congregation, Arkansas is one of the most register-dense states in the South. Pulaski County, home of Little Rock, leads with 12 listings; Garland, Ashley, and Monroe counties follow with 4 each.

The earliest listing is Trinity Episcopal Church in Pine Bluff, entered July 30, 1974, followed by Mount Olivet United Methodist in Rison (1975) and Saint Mark's Episcopal in Hope (1976). The pattern is characteristic: in Arkansas, the register began with the brick Episcopal and Methodist sanctuaries of the Delta cotton towns.

The complete list of Arkansas churches on the National Register

The table lists all 66 Arkansas congregations in this directory whose buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings as of June 11, 2026. Click a column to sort; the county menu filters the list.

When did Arkansas churches enter the National Register?

Arkansas listed steadily and late: 6 churches in the 1970s, 14 in the 1980s, then a peak of 22 in the 1990s, when the state's historic preservation program ran systematic county surveys. The 2010s added 10 and the 2020s have 6 so far, much of the recent work documenting Ozark vernacular churches and Black congregations the earlier surveys missed.

Which Arkansas counties hold the most register-listed churches?

Where the register-listed churches stand: the map

How this list was assembled

The list joins the Churches List directory (5,689 Arkansas congregations as of June 11, 2026) against the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places database by building location and name. 66 matches hold as of the snapshot date; the earliest Arkansas church listing dates to 1974. A register listing covers the building, not the congregation, and some listed buildings house congregations younger than the walls. Corrections are applied through the corrections page.

Related reading in The Letter: Tennessee's 113 register-listed churches and Texas's 104 frame Arkansas's neighbors on the register, and Louisiana's 57 continues the Delta story south. The Arkansas state page lists all 5,689 congregations.