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Photograph of St. Bartholomew's Church
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St. Bartholomew's Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Chatham County · listed in 1982 · 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. Cheves Rd., Burroughs, 31419
  • When was it listed? June 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Pooler-Bloomingdale
  • National Register reference number. 82002391 - 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

197 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of St. Bartholomew's Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 847 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 50 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism50
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking6
Natural3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-CHATHAM-003
31 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2016Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-003
17 August 2002Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHATHAM-001

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Bartholomew's Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shuman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chatham County

Storms near this property

30 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burroughs, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015LightningBurroughs$20,000The media relayed a report of a house fire due to a lightning strike in the 100 block of Sugar Mill Drive.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBurroughs$5,000Multiple trees and power lines down on Waynesboro Road in the Ogeechee Farms area.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBurroughs$5,000A spotter reported several trees down two miles east of Richmond Hill.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBurroughs$5,000Trees and power lines were reported down along Gateway Boulevard, 5 miles west of the Hunter Army Airfield. Several signs were also downed by strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBurroughs$2,000Broadcast media relayed a report of trees down in Georgetown.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBurroughs$2,000The Chatham County Emergency Management reported powerlines down on Highway 204 near US 17. The powerlines were blocking both lanes of traffic.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBurroughs$2,000Trees were reported down near the Ogechee River in Burroughs, Georgia.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBurroughs$1,000Law Enforcement reported one tree down along the intersection of Highway 17 and Quacco Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBurroughs$1,000A county official reported a tree down at the intersection of Chevis Road and Wild Herron Road.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBurroughs$500One tree reported down near the 5700 block of Ogeechee Road.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBurroughs$500A few 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs were reported down near the intersection of Interstate 95 and SR 204.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-Chatham County Emergency Management reported a downed power line in the 300 block of Beaufort Road.
August 2025FloodBurroughs-Emergency management reported a tree down on Wild Heron Road, likely due to saturated ground conditions from previous heavy rainfall.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-Chatham County Emergency Management Agency reported trees down on power lines in the 200 block of Wild Heron Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-Chatham County Emergency Management Agency reported a tree down across the road in the 6300 block of Chief Of Love Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-A spotter reported one tree uprooted on Chevis Road.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-A Chatham County emergency manager reported a tree blocking the road near the intersection of Sylvania Drive and Chevis Road.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-Chatham County Emergency Management reported a tree down across the roadway on Chevis Road near B Butler Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-A Chatham County emergency manager reported trees down on Cottonvale Road and Salt Landing Road.
January 2015Tornado (EF1)Burroughs-The tornado initially touched down near the intersection of Berwick Boulevard and Stonebridge Circle and moved northeast through the Stonebridge neighborhood. The tornado ripped numerous shingles and vinyl siding panels off a number of houses and damaged several large wooden fences. A gazebo was damaged and a trampoline was lifted and thrown for about a quarter of a mile. High winds forced rainwater through the walls of one home and damaged the drywall and carpet. Several large trees were blown over and snapped. Quite a bit of debris was noted hanging in the trees in the back of the neighborhood. One air conditioner unit was lifted and moved several feet.||The tornado then lifted and periodically touched down between Elk Road, Moose Jaw Road and Salt Creek Road for a total path length of three miles. In these areas, large trees were either blown down or snapped, including many large grand oak trees. Two homes were damaged by falling trees.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-An emergency manager reported power lines down at the intersection of Chevis Road and Wild Heron Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-The media reported a tree down on King George Boulevard in Georgetown.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-An emergency manager reported a tree down at the 1500 block of Grove Point Road.
June 2015HailBurroughs-The public reported quarter size hail.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-The media reported a large tree down on a home along Parkview Road.
May 2012HailBurroughs-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail at Berwick Plantation.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-Broadcast media reported traffic lights blown down at the intersection of King George Blvd and Highway 204.
August 2010HailBurroughs-The media relayed a report of nickel size hail on Chavis Road.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindBurroughs-Thunderstorms winds caused significant damage to a home on Grove Point Island.
March 2003HailBurroughs-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
New Ogeechee Missionary Baptist Church0.6 miles2001
Wild Heron1.5 miles1977
Lebanon Plantation3.1 miles1979
Savannah and Ogeechee Canal6.2 miles1997
Nicholsonville Baptist Church6.3 miles1978
Vernonburg Historic District6.8 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002391 in Record Group 79.
Chatham CountyAll 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.
  • 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.