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Photograph of Mount Beasor Primitive Baptist Church
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mount Beasor Primitive Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1945.

From the record

“Mount Beasor Primitive Baptist Church is a historic church in Wakulla County, Florida. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 2012.”

Wikipedia article Mount Beasor Primitive Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Wakulla County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 120 Mount Beasor Rd., Sopchoppy, 32358
  • When was it listed? October 2012
  • Category. building
  • Census division. West Wakulla
  • National Register reference number. 12000866 - 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.

Then and now

1945 to 1990

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Mount Beasor Primitive Baptist Church, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet covering Mount Beasor Primitive Baptist Church, surveyed 1945

Fires near this property

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Mount Beasor Primitive Baptist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,616 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 18 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
Natural24
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 1999Natural8.0 acresNational Forests in FloridaG F & A
7 September 1999Natural5.0 acresNational Forests in FloridaMILLGROVE
23 August 2005Natural10 acresNational Forests in FloridaKELLY
20 August 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNational Forests in FloridaALLIGATOR
8 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaMINNOW
8 July 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(65) SEMINOLE
8 July 1994Naturalunder an acreSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeNATOUT5
7 July 1998Smokingunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaSOPCHOPPY

Every fire recorded in Wakulla County

Storms near this property

31 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sopchoppy, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2013Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$25,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the county, especially around Crawfordville. Around 90% of the Crawfordville substation lost power. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 1999Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$15,000Several trees and power lines down. Slight roof damage to a few residences.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$10,000Straight line winds downed numerous trees and power lines across the southern and eastern portions of the county. Forty homes were without power.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$5,000Downed trees and power lines reported by Florida Power and Electric officials.
September 2000Tornado (F0)Sopchoppy$5,000A brief F0 tornado touched down and uprooted some trees and power lines. Reported by the Wakulla County EMA.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$3,000Power lines were blown down on Surf Road and Booth Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$2,000An object blew into power lines, resulting in a power outage to 250 customers in the Sopchoppy area.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$2,000Fallen trees or limbs resulted in a power outage in the Sopchoppy area.
June 2024LightningSopchoppy$2,000Lightning resulted in a power outage near Sopchoppy.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$2,000Fallen trees and limbs resulted in a power outage.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$2,000Fallen trees or limbs resulted in a power outage north of Sopchoppy.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$2,000Fallen trees and limbs resulted in a power outage to over 400 customers in the Sopchoppy area via the Duke Energy Outage map.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$2,000Fallen trees and limbs resulted in a power outage on the northwest side of Sopchoppy.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy$2,000Fallen trees or limbs resulted in a power outage along Stephen C Revell Road northwest of Sopchoppy.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-A tree was blown down on Oak Park Road halfway to Sopchoppy.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-A power line was blown down along Seminole Lane.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-Two trees were blown down along Railroad Ave.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-Trees were blown down on power lines north of Sopchoppy on Mt Beasor Road near the painted bridge over the Sopchoppy River.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-A tree was blown down in Sopchoppy.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-Trees were blown down on Persimmon Road.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-Multiple trees were blown down in Sopchoppy.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-Trees were blown down on the 7700 block of Smith Creek Road.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-Trees were blown down on Greenough Road.
January 2010Flash FloodSopchoppy-Heavy rain produced flash flooding over many areas across northwest FL and the adjacent panhandle. Wakulla county reported 6-7 inches of rain during the mid to late morning, with 3-6 inches across most of the region beginning late Wednesday night (Jan. 20th). There were widespread reports of flooded roadways, with water in some homes in Wakulla county. FSU campus in Tallahassee reported 50-60 cars flooded. Two hikers were stranded and clinging to trees along the Florida Trail near Freeport in Walton county.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-A few trees were down on Yellow Jacket Avenue.
September 2008Thunderstorm WindSopchoppy-Several trees were blown down near Sopchoppy.
July 2007HailSopchoppy-Nickel size hail was reported.
February 2006HailSopchoppy-Quarter size hail reported by the public.
April 2025HailSopchoppy-no account filed
June 2021HailSopchoppy-no account filed
January 2010HailSopchoppy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wakulla County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

3 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
Sopchoppy Depot2.7 miles2017
Sopchoppy School2.8 miles2001
Sopchoppy High School Gymnasium, Old2.8 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000866 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wakulla CountyAll 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.
  • 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.