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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Harris County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Whitesville Methodist Episcopal Church, South, andd Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4731 Pine Lake Rd., Whitesville, 31833
- When was it listed? February 2002
- Category. building
- Census division. Pine Mountain
- National Register reference number. 02000077 - 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
109 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Whitesville Methodist Episcopal Church, South, andd Cemetery between 1992 and 2019, burning about 753 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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 | 60 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-HARRIS-002 |
| 23 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-HARRIS-001 |
| 13 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020HARRIS002 |
| 21 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 August 2002 | Natural | 3.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-TROUP-003 |
| 9 July 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
22 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitesville, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flood, 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 | Hail | Whitesville | $267,000 | The Harris County Sheriff's Department, amateur radio operators, and the public observed quarter to golf ball-sized hail across northern Harris county from just east of Whitesville-Pine Lake, to Pine Mountain Valley, to Shiloh. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $100,000 | Harris county 911 reported 2 houses were destroyed, and many trees and power lines were blown down. A report from the public estimated the winds up to 60 mph. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Whitesville | $50,000 | The severe thunderstorm that brought golf ball-size hail to extreme southwest Troup county and West Point also brought golf ball-sized hail to extreme northwest Harris county. The public reported golf ball-sized hail in the extreme northwest corner of the county. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $15,000 | The Harris County 911 Center reported that nearly two dozen trees were down across the county. Most of the damage appeared to be concentrated in the West Point Lake and Cataula areas. In Cataula, the public reported minor damage to their home when three trees came down in their yard. One of the trees took out the electric line to the property. |
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $5,000 | The Harris County 911 Center reported numerous trees down near Whitesville. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $3,000 | Report of multiple trees down along I185 about 1 mile north of Hopewell Church Rd. Trees were next to each other. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $3,000 | The local Electric Membership Cooperative reported that a number of trees were down in the area as well as a few power poles. The Harris County 911 Center reported that several trees were down on U.S. Highway 27 one mile north of Cataula. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $2,000 | The Harris County 911 Center reported that from eight to ten trees were blown down in the northwest part of the county near Whitesville. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $1,000 | The Harris County 911 center reported a tree blown down onto Highway 18 near the intersection with Whitesville Road. |
| February 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $1,000 | The Harris County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down at the intersection of Highway 219 and Hopewell Church Road. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $1,000 | The Harris County 911 Center reported that five trees were down in the extreme northern corner of the county, just southeast of West Point and the intersection of Georgia Highways 18 and 103. |
| June 2007 | Lightning | Whitesville | $1,000 | The Harris County 911 Center reported that a power line was down as a result of a lightning strike. The transformer was also set on fire by the lightning. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $1,000 | Trees were knocked down in the Pine Valley Road area. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $1,000 | Several trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds; power lines were snapped as well. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | $250 | The Harris county 911 center reported that a tree was blown down. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Whitesville | - | One inch hail reported at exit 30 on i-185. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesville | - | Damage to a sheet metal roof of an awning along with several large tree limbs down near the intersection of Hopewell Church Rd and Price Rd. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Whitesville | - | The public reported up to quarter size hail fell for about 30 minutes across portions of western Harris County, from southeast of West Point Lake to Hamilton. |
| November 2006 | Flood | Whitesville | - | The Harris County 911 Center reported street flooding on Georgia Highway 219 in the western part of the county. At one location, the water was up to one foot deep on the road. The road was not closed. WFR-88D rainfall estimates were in the three to four inch range across the northwest half of the county. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Whitesville | - | The public reported quarter to golf ball-sized hail. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Whitesville | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Whitesville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornton Plantation | 2.4 miles | 2004 | |
 | Sunnyside School-Midway Baptist Church and Midway Cemetery Historic District | 2.9 miles | 1999 |
 | Story-Hadley House | 4.0 miles | 2002 |
| Cason and Virginia Callaway House | 7.8 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000077 in Record Group 79. |
| Harris County | All 14 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.