BlockFrom the record
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Siloam Junior High School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 473 GA 15S, Siloam, 30642
- When was it listed? February 2002
- Category. building
- Census division. Siloam
- National Register reference number. 02000036 - 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
230 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Siloam Junior High School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 596 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 20 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 | 105 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Smoking | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Siloam Junior High School: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greene County Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Siloam Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Siloam Washing Plant & Pit | Feldspar | Plant |
Storms near this property
6 since 2002Regional 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. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moore-Crutchfield Place | 0.2 miles | 1990 | |
 | Siloam Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2001 |
| Brown-Bryson Farm | 1.6 miles | 1999 | |
 | Jefferson Hall | 5.3 miles | 1989 |
| Peter W. Printup Plantation | 5.5 miles | 1985 | |
| Union Manufacturing Company | 5.6 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000036 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.