Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church and School

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church and School, in Whigham, Georgia, in Grady County, United States, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.”
Wikipedia article Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church and School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Grady County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1930.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 232 Martin Ave., Whigham, 39897
When was it listed? July 2008
Category. building
Census division. Whigham
When was it built? 1930
National Register reference number. 08000714 - 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

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church and School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 964 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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	218
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	11
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5

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
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GRADY-007
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	9.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020GRADY012
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020GRADY011
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Storms near this property

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whigham, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 9 injuries. 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 2001	Tornado (F2)	Whigham	9 hurt, $1,000,000	The F2 tornado raced northeast from just southeast of Climax in Decatur County to just southeast of Whigham in Grady County, then dissipated. Nine persons were injured, one critically. Ten homes were damaged and two homes destroyed on Piney Grove Road four miles southwest of Whigham. A half dozen homes were damaged two miles southwest of Whigham at the intersection of Attapulgus and Cleon Roads. Additionally, ten barns and sheds were damaged and eight trailers destroyed. Numerous trees and power lines down with outages. Reported by the Grady County EMA and a SKYWARN storm spotter.
September 2004	Tornado (F1)	Whigham	$150,000	A tornado damaged five homes and several chicken houses in Whigham. Numerous downed trees and power lines blocked several roads along its path. Reported by the Grady County EMA
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$10,000	Shingles were blown off a roof in Whigham. Damage cost was estimated.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$5,000	Damage to a shed's roof on farm was reported a 1047 Cedar Springs Road. Part of the metal roof was tossed into nearby trees.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$5,000	Multiple trees and power lines were blown down across the county. Monetary damage was estimated.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$5,000	Estimated 70 mph straight line winds blew out windows of a home southwest of Whigham. Numerous trees were down in the area.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$5,000	Grady County S.O. reported several downed trees and power lines.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$5,000	A few large trees were blown over by thunderstorm winds.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$4,000	Several trees were blown down around the county. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$4,000	County dispatch reported scattered trees down across Grady county. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$3,000	The Grady county 911 dispatch reported several trees down across Grady county. Monetary damage was estimated.
February 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$2,000	Grady EMC reported a broken power pole, resulting in 109 customers losing power.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$2,000	Several trees were blown down along Trinity Road, and a few were snapped at the top.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$1,000	A power pole was broken in the Whigham area.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	$500	A few trees blocking the intersection of State Road 179 and U.S. Highway 84. Reported by the Grady County 911.
April 2023	Hail	Whigham	-	The Grady County Fire Department reported golf ball sized hail south of Whigham.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	-	Trees were blown down near Whigham.
February 1998	Hail	Whigham	-	Cairo SKYWARN spotter report of dime size hail two miles northwest of Whigham.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Whigham	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grady 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Cairo Commercial Historic District	7.2 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000714 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grady County	All 8 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.