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Mount Enon Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Mount Enon Church and Cemetery is a historic church in Mitchell County, Georgia near Baconton. It is a one-story wood frame country church built in 1889 on a brick pier foundation.”

Wikipedia article Mount Enon Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Mitchell County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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. Old Stage Coach Rd., Baconton, 31716
  • When was it listed? December 1983
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Baconton
  • National Register reference number. 83003596 - 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

336 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Mount Enon Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,644 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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 burning190
Railroad operations and maintenance70
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4

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
9 September 2010Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MITCHELL-005
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1995Debris and open burning16 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Storms near this property

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baconton, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
March 2001Thunderstorm WindBaconton2 hurt, $150,000A microburst caused F1 damage along a half mile path. Three mobile homes were destroyed. Two occupants inside one of the mobile homes were injured, one seriously. Six mobile homes were damaged. Some trees and power lines down. Reported by Mitchell County 911.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindBaconton1 hurt, $100,000Several trees were toppled and roofs were blown off four houses in Baconton. Several mobile homes were damaged northeast of Baconton near Stagecoach Road and County Line Road. One person was injured.
March 2007Tornado (EF2)Baconton$2,250,000The EF-2 tornado moved northeast from Baker County into Mitchell County just west of Baconton. GEMA and FEMA assessed 26 minor damaged homes, 25 major damaged homes, and two destroyed homes. Thirteen businesses sustained minor losses. Most of the damage occurred just north of Baconton on Gravel Hill Road in the Pleasant Grove community. Over 200 acres of pecan trees were uprooted. The tornado flipped over a semi on U.S. Highway 19 about four miles north of Baconton then crossed into southeastern Dougherty County. A state of emergency was declared by the Governor.
January 2017Tornado (EF1)Baconton$100,000An EF1 tornado with max winds near 95 mph touched down near Flint River just west of US 19 and north of Baconton in Mitchell County. Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped. In fact, there were estimates of around 3,000 pecan trees destroyed. There was roof damage to several mobile homes off Stage Coach Road. The tornado may have touched down a bit further west and lifted a bit further east. However, these areas were inaccessible to the survey team. Damage cost was estimated. An article from Texas A&M states that a mature pecan tree is worth around $2,500, bringing the estimated crop damage total to around $7.5 million.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindBaconton$15,000A house sustained roof damage. Trees and power lines down. Reported by a WALB-TV meteorologist.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindBaconton$10,000One tree fell on a home in Baconton. A picture posted on social media shows that the trunk of the tree split and may have been rotted. No other trees down or wind damage was reported in the area. Damage was estimated.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindBaconton$3,000Power lines were blown down around Baconton.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindBaconton$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Baconton.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBaconton$3,000Several trees and power lines were blown down near Baconton.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindBaconton$2,000A tree resulted in a power outage north of Baconton via the Georgia Power outage map.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindBaconton$2,000A large pine tree was blown over with downed power lines along Old Georgia Highway 3.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindBaconton$2,000Mitchell EMC reported downed power lines and some local road flooding.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBaconton$2,000A tree was blown down resulting in a power outage.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBaconton$1,000A power line was blown down along Highway 19 North and resulted in a grass fire.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBaconton$1,000One tree was blown down around Baconton. Monetary damage was estimated.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBaconton$500The Mitchell County Sheriff reported a few trees down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBaconton-A tree was blown down on Old Georgia Highway 3.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindBaconton-Trees were blown down in the Baconton area.
March 2024Flash FloodBaconton-Flooding was reported on Church St.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBaconton-A car in Baconton was damaged by a fallen tree.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBaconton-Tree limbs were blocking 1 of 2 lanes on Highway 3 at Jackson Dairy Road.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBaconton-Trees were reported down in the Baconton area.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBaconton-A tree was blown down across Stage Coach Road just south of Vines Road.
August 2018FloodBaconton-There was a report of water on Old State Route 3 about 1 mile south of Baconton. The depth of the water was not reported.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBaconton-Multiple trees were blown down in Baconton.
May 2012HailBaconton-Golf ball size hail fell in far northern Mitchell county.
May 2006HailBaconton-Marble to penny size hail reported by the Mitchell County Sheriff.
April 2004HailBaconton-Quarter size hail reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBaconton-Downed trees reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindBaconton-Several trees were blown down across SR93 according to county Emergency Management.
May 2024HailBaconton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mitchell 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

5 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
George W. Jackson House2.9 miles1983
Walton Street-Church Street Historic District3.0 miles1983
Baconton Commercial Historic District3.3 miles1983
South Railroad Historic District3.5 miles1983
Bacon Family Homestead4.5 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003596 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mitchell CountyAll 10 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.