William and Ann Copeland Jr. House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Harris County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Copeland, William and Ann, Jr., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 19444 GA 116, Shiloh, 31826
When was it listed? December 2008
Category. building
Census division. Shiloh
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 08000969 - 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

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of William and Ann Copeland Jr. House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 781 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 41 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	142
Arson/incendiarism	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
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
9 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-HARRIS-001
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HARRIS-006
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HARRIS004
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this property

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shiloh, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
June 2008	Lightning	Shiloh	$250,000	The Harris County Journal reported that lightning struck a large single-story wood frame home at the corner of Second Street and First Avenue. The house was completely destroyed from the resulting fire.
October 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Shiloh	$5,000	NWS Storm Survey team found a tornado touched down just southwest of Shiloh in Harris County and traveled northeast for almost 6 miles across northwest Talbot County and southern Meriwether County. A home on the south face of Pine Mountain off Skyline Drive southwest of Manchester lost part of its roof and a large shed was destroyed. A few other homes along the path had minor damage with approximately 100 trees snapped or uprooted. EF1 damage was indicated with maximum wind speeds estimated around 100 MPH and a path width of 200 yards. [10/14/14: Tornado #1, County #1-3, EF1, Harris-Talbot-Meriwether, 2014:011].
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Shiloh	$1,000	Tree downed just north of Oak Mountain Rd .
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Shiloh	$1,000	The Harris County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down along Highway 190 in the F.D. Roosevelt State Park.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
	Bethlehem Baptist Church Colored School	2.7 miles	2008
	Welcome P. Duke Log House	7.1 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000969 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.