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One of 10 National Register listings published here for Chambers County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. S corner of River & White's Mill Rds., Valley, 36854
- When was it listed? December 2017
- Category. building
- Census division. Valley
- National Register reference number. 100001875 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
138 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Bethlehem Baptist Church between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,178 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 44 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 54 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 44 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-HARRIS-002 |
| 16 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2016 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-HARRIS-002 |
| 14 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bethlehem Baptist Church: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cha 1 Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this property
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valley | $22,000 | Lightning struck the city of Lanett's communications system damaging many radios. Strong wind with a thunderstorm toppled several trees in the Valley area. One tree fell on a house. |
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
4 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fairfax Historic District | 0.6 miles | 1999 |
 | Langdale Historic District | 1.8 miles | 1999 |
 | Riverview Historic District | 1.8 miles | 1999 |
 | Shawmut Historic District | 3.6 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001875 in Record Group 79. |
| Chambers County | All 10 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.