Liberty Baptist Church

Built in 1858. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Liberty Baptist Church is a historic church built about 1858 in Grooverville, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 2013.”
Wikipedia article Liberty Baptist Church (Grooverville, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Brooks County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1858.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Liberty Church Rd., Grooverville, 31626
When was it listed? August 2013
Category. building
Census division. Dixie
When was it built? 1858
National Register reference number. 13000609 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Baptist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 792 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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	80
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-THOMAS-003
20 August 1993	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Debris and open burning	5.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-BROOKS-008
17 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-BROOKS-009
7 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	9.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-BROOKS-001
3 July 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Brooks County

Storms near this property

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grooverville, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Grooverville	$3,000	Several trees were blown down in Grooverville. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Grooverville	$2,000	A power line was blown down along Ramsey Road.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Grooverville	-	Trees were blown down not far from Grooverville. This report was obtained via mping.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Grooverville	-	Trees were blown down just north of Grooverville. This report was obtained via mping.
September 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Grooverville	-	A tornado tracked along the Brooks/Thomas county line with damage to trees. A dual-pol tornadic debris signature was observed on radar. No structural damage was reported, and this tornado was rated EF0.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Grooverville	-	The public estimated wind gusts of at least 60 mph near the intersection of County Road 275 and County Road 78.
May 2010	Hail	Grooverville	-	Quarter sized hail was reported by the public and relayed via Brooks county 911.
March 1995	Hail	Grooverville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brooks 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000609 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brooks County	All 9 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.