BlockFrom 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
Bethlehem Baptist Church Colored School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 200 Bethlehem Dr., Pine Mountain Valley, 31811
- When was it listed? December 2008
- Category. building
- Census division. Shiloh
- National Register reference number. 08001246 - 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
194 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Bethlehem Baptist Church Colored School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 649 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 24 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 | 124 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
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 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-HARRIS-006 |
| 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 |
| 25 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020HARRIS003 |
Storms near this property
1 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Mountain Valley, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Mountain Valley | $2,000 | 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William and Ann Copeland Jr. House | 2.7 miles | 2008 |
| Welcome P. Duke Log House | 5.4 miles | 1999 | |
 | Chipley-Pine Mountain Town Hall | 5.9 miles | 1986 |
 | Harris County Courthouse | 6.4 miles | 1980 |
 | Hamilton Baptist Church and Pastorium | 6.5 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 08001246 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.