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Arkansas County Baptist Association
Arkansas County Baptist Association
The Arkansas County Baptist Association was organized in 1920 at the Big LaGrue Baptist Church. C.W. Fox was elected moderator, C.P. McGraw served as clerk, and H.B. Dudley was moderator emeritus. The first meeting was attended by messengers from the Almyra, Big LaGrue, Belview, DeWitt, New Hope, Pine Oak, Rising Sun, Stuttgart, and Zion churches.
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Bartholomew Baptist Association
Bartholomew Baptist Association
Bartholomew Baptist Association was organized in 1846 at a church four miles north of what is now the town of Monticello. Among the pioneer preachers were N.C. Denson, Benaiah Carroll (father of B.H. and J.M. Carroll), and John S. Wood. Carroll served as moderator of the association’s first session. By 1850, Bartholomew Association included ten churches; by 1895, forty-five; and by 1924, sixty-seven.
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Black River Association
Black River Association
Black River Baptist Association was organized in 1914 by representatives of the Alicia, Black Rock, Hoxie, lmboden, Swifton, and Walnut Ridge churches. By 1920, there were fourteen member churches, and by 1930, twenty. There had been another Black River Association in the 1830s that included churches in both Arkansas and Missouri.
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Buckville Baptist Association
Buckville Baptist Association
The Buckville Baptist Association was organized in 1890 at Mount Tabor Baptist Church. E.P. Chitwood was elected moderator and H.H. Williamson clerk. Member churches were Buckville, Bethel, Cedar Glades, Concord, Mount Tabor, White Plains, Rock Springs, New Prospect, and Hot Springs Second—most came from the Saline Association. Four more churches joined the following year, and four the next. By 1906 the association included twenty-eight churches.
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Caddo River Baptist Association
Caddo River Baptist Association
The Caddo River Baptist Association was established in October of 1853 at Mount Gilead Church in Montgomery County, with W.M. Spates, moderator, and William F. Browning, clerk. In addition to Mount Gilead, the association’s original churches included Big Fork in Polk County, Liberty in Montgomery County, Phillipi in Clark County, and Pleasant Grove, also in Clark County.
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Carey Baptist Association
Carey Baptist Association
Carey Baptist Association was established March 11, 1916, at New Hope Church in Dallas County by fourteen churches: Brown Springs, Dalark, Shady Grove, Sparkman, Ouachita, New Hope, Holly Springs, Bearden, Hampton, Tinsman, Thornton, Fordyce, Prosperity, and Liberty. At the time, each of the churches had from between twenty-five to forty members each.
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Caroline Baptist Association
Caroline Baptist Association
Caroline Baptist Association was organized in 1853 at Atlanta Baptist Church near Austin in Lonoke County, by five churches: Atlanta, Bethel of Conway, Des Arc, Hickory Plains, and Siloam. Elder I. Hall served as moderator and Dr. Hinkle as clerk.
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Central Baptist Association
Central Baptist Association
Central Baptist Association was organized at the First Baptist Church of Benton in 1919. John Nance served as moderator, with R.R. Adams as clerk, and W.K. Smith as treasurer.
Another, earlier Central Association became a part of the Stevens Creek Association in 1891.
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Clear Creek Baptist Association
Clear Creek Baptist Association
Clear Creek Baptist Association was organized in 1872 at Concord Baptist Church near Alma, and included five churches: Concord, Rehoboth (near Ozark), Sulphur Springs (near Van Buren), Shiloh (near Ozark), and Zoar (near Van Buren). Other churches to join the association in the 1870s and 1880s were Alma, Bethesda, Antioch, Coal Hill, Clarksville, New Prospect No. 2, Ozark, Van Buren, White Oak, Macedonia, Fine Springs, and Altus. At the time of the association’s fiftieth anniversary (1922) it included twenty-nine churches.
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Concord Baptist Association
Concord Baptist Association
The Concord Baptist Association was organized in 1871 at Fellowship Baptist Church (Sebastian County) by a group of churches formerly a part of the Dardanelle Baptist Association (Fellowship, Charleston, Smyrna, Greenwood, Hepzibah, Mount Nebo, Cedar Grove, Mount Hope, Grand Prairie, Pine Mountain, Oak Bower, Fort Smith, and Washburn Creek) as well as Macedonia, Figure Five, and Mount Lebanon. Bro. E.L. Compere served as the first moderator.
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Crooked Creek Association of Baptists
Crooked Creek Association of Baptists
Crooked Creek Baptist Association was organized in May of 1869 at Bellefonte, Boone County, Arkansas. By 1879, the association included thirteen churches.
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Current River Missionary Baptist Association
Current River Missionary Baptist Association
Current River Baptist Association was organized in 1881 at Antioch Baptist Church (Randolph County) by Antioch, Mount Pleasant West, Shiloh, Mount Pleasant East, Emmons (Missouri), and Liberty Baptist churches.
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Dardanelle Baptist Association
Dardanelle Baptist Association
Dardanelle Association was established in 1854, and was a physically large association, covering approximately one-sixth of Arkansas, including territory on both sides of the Arkansas River from Fort Smith to more than half way to Little Rock, and west to Oklahoma. By 1870 it included fifty-two churches. Many associations have since been created out of this organization.
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Eleven-Point River Association
Eleven-Point River Association
The Eleven-Point River Baptist Association was established in October of 1888 at Many Springs Baptist Church, Oregon County, Missouri. The association’s area extended across the state line into Arkansas and initially included these churches: New Bethel, Mill Creek, Royal Oak, Many Springs, Lebanon, Rocky Point, New Salem, Fairview, Alton, Rose Hill, Big Barren, and Pine Grove.
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