Upper Lott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Upper Lott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic site in Upper Lotts Creek or Upper Lott's Creek in Metter, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 2008.”
Wikipedia article Upper Lott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Bulloch County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Metter-Portal Hwy. and Westside Rd., Metter, 30450
When was it listed? December 2008
Category. district
Census division. Portal
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 08000967 - 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

270 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Upper Lott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,037 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 25 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	187
Arson/incendiarism	25
Natural	15
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	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
18 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BULLOCH-015
18 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-CANDLER-005
13 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2018	Natural	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BULLOCH004
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-CANDLER-004
12 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CANDLER-010

Every fire recorded in Bulloch 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

2 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
	Stewart Stores	4.1 miles	1993
	Dr. James A. Stewart House	4.2 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000967 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bulloch 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.