Stone Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Catoosa County · listed in 1979 · 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 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Ringgold off U.S. 76, Ringgold, 30755
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. building
Census division. Catoosa Springs
National Register reference number. 79000703 - 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

551 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 551 fires within 5 miles of Stone Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,586 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 83 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	301
Arson/incendiarism	83
Equipment and vehicle use	65
Misuse of fire by a minor	30
Smoking	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CATOOSA-008
9 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CATOOSA-005
7 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Catoosa County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Stone Church: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Manganese, Manganese, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Catoosa Mining Co Prospects	Manganese	Occurrence
Fox and Dowler Property	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	1889
Unnamed	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Clark Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fry Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hales Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Tunnel Hill Distr.		Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Catoosa County

Storms near this property

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ringgold, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$50,000	The Catoosa County Emergency Management Director reported that 12 trees were blown down southwest of Ringgold. One tree fell on a home and another fell on a vehicle. A barn was also damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2006	Lightning	Ringgold	$25,000	The Catoosa County 911 Center reported that lightning struck and set on fire the roof of the Shaw Plant on Industrial Boulevard.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$15,000	The public reported that at least four large trees were blown down. One was down on U.S. Highway 41 near Cloud Spring Road, and another was blown down onto a parked car on Pine Grove Road.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$6,500	Thunderstorm winds knocked over an old barn and caused minor damage to a home. Originally it was reported as a tornado, but upon inspection by county EMA officials, it was downgraded to straightline thunderstorm winds.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$6,000	In the southern portions of the county, thunderstorm winds knocked down trees, power lines and utility poles. Winds were estimated at 60 mph, as shingles were ripped off the roof of Firestation number 2.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$5,000	Multiple trees down in ringgold .
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$4,000	The public reported trees blown down on the northeast side of Ringgold from Marilyn Circle to Creeks Bend Drive, where a falling tree damaged the gutter on a home.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$3,000	The Catoosa County 911 center reported that trees were down on power lines causing several power outages in the Ringgold area.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$3,000	The Catoosa county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down on the south side of Ringgold and across the south part of the county.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$3,000	The Catoosa county 911 center reported that several more trees and power lines were blown down in the area.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$3,000	The Catoosa county 911 center reported that several trees and power lines were blown down along Interstate 75. Several barrels were also blown off the interstate in this area.
February 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$2,500	The Catoosa County 911 Center reported multiple trees down in and near Ringgold, including along Holcomb Road, Old Tunnel Road, Smith Chapel Road, LaFayette Road and Highway 41.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$2,000	Catoosa 911 reported several trees and power lines were downed across the county by thunderstorm winds.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$1,500	The Catoosa County Emergency Manager reported that several trees were blown down in Ringgold.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$1,000	A amateur radio operator reported a tree blown down at the intersection of Highway 41 and State Spur 151.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$1,000	The Catoosa County 911 Center reported that three to four trees were down in the northeast part of the county, east of Ringgold.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$1,000	The Catoosa county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$1,000	The Catoosa county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$1,000	The Catoosa county 911 center reported that some trees were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$500	The Catoosa County 911 Center reported that three trees were blown down on a secondary road in the southeast part of the county.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$500	The Catoosa County 911 center reported that two trees were blown down.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$500	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees onto power lines which caused power outages in Ringgold for up to 3 hours.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	$250	The public reported that one tree was blown down.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	-	Report of a tree down near the 400 block of Cotter Rd.
March 2012	Hail	Ringgold	-	The Catoosa County 911 Center reported that pea to dime sized hail covered the ground.
March 2011	Hail	Ringgold	-	A storm spotter observed penny-sized hail near Ringgold.
April 2007	Hail	Ringgold	-	The public observed nickel-sized hail north of Ringgold.
April 2006	Hail	Ringgold	-	The Deputy Emergency Management Director for Catoosa County reported penny-sized hail from Ringgold to the southeast corner of the county near Tunnel Hill.
June 2006	Hail	Ringgold	-	The Catoosa County Emergency Management Director observed penny-sized hail in southeast Catoosa county from four to five miles southeast of Ringgold southeast to near Tunnel Hill on the Whitfield county line.
May 2006	Hail	Ringgold	-	The Catoosa County Emergency Management Director reported two rounds of nickel-sized hail affected the southeast part of the county.
July 2006	Hail	Ringgold	-	The public reported penny-sized hail.
June 2005	Hail	Ringgold	-	A trained spotter reported penny-sized hail. Large tree limbs were also down in the same area.
March 2004	Heavy Rain	Ringgold	-	The Catoosa county 911 center reported that heavy rain had forced the closure of one road in Ringgold. The water was too deep to drive through safely.
July 2003	Hail	Ringgold	-	The Catoosa county 911 center reported nickel-sized hail on the south side of Ringgold.
June 2002	Hail	Ringgold	-	The public reported dime size hail.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ringgold	-	The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts at 60 mph.
July 2002	Hail	Ringgold	-	The public reported quarter size hail in Ringgold and the Catoosa county Sheriff reported dime size hail near the Catoosa-Walker county line.
June 2001	Hail	Ringgold	-	The public reported quarter size hail near Sugartown.
August 2001	Flood	Ringgold	-	The public reported that a local road was blocked with high water.
May 1999	Hail	Ringgold	-	The public reported quarter to golf ball size hail.
July 1998	Hail	Ringgold	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Ringgold	-	no account filed
January 1996	Flash Flood	Ringgold	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Ringgold	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Catoosa 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
Ringgold Gap Battlefield	1.6 miles	2011
Ringgold Depot	1.9 miles	1978
Ringgold Commercial Historic District	1.9 miles	1992
Whitman-Anderson House	2.0 miles	1977
Catoosa County Courthouse	2.0 miles	2006
Blackford-Gray House	6.2 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000703 in Record Group 79.
Catoosa 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.