Siloam Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Siloam Historic District, in Siloam, Georgia, USA, is a 100 acres (40 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The listing included 40 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and a contributing site.”
Wikipedia article Siloam Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly centered on Main St., Union Point Hwy., and Church St., Siloam, 30642
When was it listed? July 2001
Category. district
Census division. Siloam
National Register reference number. 01000740 - 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

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Siloam Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 599 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 21 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	106
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Smoking	26
Arson/incendiarism	21
Natural	18
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
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
6 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-GREENE-005
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-GREENE-007
19 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Siloam Historic District: 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Granite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Greene County Quarry	Granite	Producer
Siloam Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Siloam Washing Plant & Pit	Feldspar	Plant

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Siloam, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
March 2011	Lightning	Siloam	$25,000	The Greene County 911 Center reported that a structure on Fuller Road was struck by lightning and set on fire. No further specific details were provided.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Siloam	$4,000	The Greene County 911 center reported trees blown down along a line from around the intersection of Bethany Road and Old Bethany Road near Siloam, to around the intersection of Village Main Street and Founders Row in Reynolds Plantation.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Siloam	$3,000	The Rayle Electric Membership Cooperative reported that several trees were down on power lines along Georgia Highway 77.
March 2011	Hail	Siloam	-	The Greene County 911 Center relayed reports of quarter-sized hail in the far southeastern part of the county between Siloam and White Plains.
March 2010	Hail	Siloam	-	The public observed quarter-sized hail in the Siloam area.
May 2002	Hail	Siloam	-	The Union Point Post Office reported quarter size hail and the public reported quarter size hail in Siloam.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Siloam Junior High School	0.4 miles	2002
Moore-Crutchfield Place	0.6 miles	1990
Brown-Bryson Farm	1.3 miles	1999
Jefferson Hall	5.2 miles	1989
Peter W. Printup Plantation	5.3 miles	1985
Union Manufacturing Company	5.4 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000740 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 24 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.