Nicholsonville Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Chatham County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. White Bluff Rd., Nicholsonville, 31419
When was it listed? May 1978
Category. building
Census division. Savannah
National Register reference number. 78000969 - 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Nicholsonville Baptist Church between 1992 and 2017, burning about 345 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-002
26 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2000	Recreation and ceremony	6.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CHATHAM-006
4 June 1996	Debris and open burning	4.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 June 1996	Recreation and ceremony	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 June 1993	Debris and open burning	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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

6 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
Vernonburg Historic District	0.5 miles	2000
Vernonburg Historic District	1.2 miles	2000
Bethesda Home for Boys	2.7 miles	1973
Wormsloe Plantation	4.0 miles	1973
Clarence and Louise Golden Williams House	4.4 miles	2023
Wild Heron	4.8 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000969 in Record Group 79.
Chatham County	All 80 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.