Ochlocknee Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery

Built in 1848. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Ochlocknee Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic church and school at 521 U.S. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.”
Wikipedia article Ochlocknee Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Grady County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1848.

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 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 521 US HWY 319 S, Beachton, 31792
When was it listed? November 2010
Category. building
Census division. Southeast Grady
When was it built? 1848
National Register reference number. 10000924 - 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Ochlocknee Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,078 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
7 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2006	Debris and open burning	5.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GRADY-014
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GRADY-013
17 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020GRADY001
6 June 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 1996	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beachton, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2008	Flash Flood	Beachton	1 killed, $8,500,000	Many roads and low lying areas were flooded. More than 700 miles of county roads were were undermined by the flood waters. A teenage boy drowned when he fell into rushing flood waters of an overflowing lake in Deer Lake subdivision. A man was seriously injured trying to save the boy. Numerous homes in Cairo were flooded, with some inundated by water as high as four feet. Rainfall amounts ranged from ten to twenty inches throughout the county.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Beachton	$3,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in the Beachton area.
July 2025	Hail	Beachton	-	Nickel to quarter size hail fell and lasted several minutes.
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Beachton	-	A tree was blown down across Highway 319 near Mile Marker 5.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Beachton	-	Trees were blown down along Highway 93 south of the Ochlockonee River.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Beachton	-	A tree was blown down along Highway 319 near mile marker 6.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Beachton	-	A tree was blown down in the Beachton area.
May 2005	Hail	Beachton	-	Penny size hail reported by the public on U.S. Highway 319.
November 1997	Hail	Beachton	-	Dime size hail in south central Grady county just north of Beachton.
April 2021	Hail	Beachton	-	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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Evergreen Congregational Church and School	3.3 miles	2002
Susina Plantation	5.2 miles	1970
Dickey-Birdsong Plantation	7.3 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000924 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.