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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Bartow County · listed in 1988 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Pine Log Methodist Church, Campground, and Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- Address. GA 140, W of US 411, Rydal, 30171
- When was it listed? September 1988
- Category. district
- Census division. White-Pine Log
- National Register reference number. 86002176 - 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
226 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Pine Log Methodist Church, Campground, and Cemetery between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,606 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 81 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 | 101 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 81 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-BARTOW-011 |
| 5 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-BARTOW-024 |
| 27 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-BARTOW-006 |
| 23 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 51 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Pine Log Methodist Church, Campground, and Cemetery: 24 occurrences, 18 past producers, 7 unknowns, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Iron, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluff Mine | Iron, Sulfur | Past Producer | ||
| Funkhouser Co Quarry | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Upshire Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Conasauga No. 1 Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Rob Shinall Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Boneyard | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | 1900 | |
| Collins | Iron, Manganese | Unknown | 1919 | |
| Conner | Iron, Manganese | Unknown | 1954 | |
| Pauper Farm | Iron, Manganese | Unknown | 1915 | |
| Sugar Hill | Iron, Manganese | Unknown | 1954 |
Storms near this property
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rydal, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2007 | Hail | Rydal | $200,000 | A storm spotter reported golf ball-sized hail in the Rydal area while the public reported nickel-sized hail just southeast of Rydal. |
| February 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rydal | $1,000 | Tree and powerlines down at intersection of East Valley Road and Mahan road. |
| February 2020 | Flash Flood | Rydal | - | The Emergency Manager reported flooding along East Valley Road due to high flow through Sugar Hill Creek. Radar estimates indicate that 2.5 to 4 inches of rain have occurred, falling on already wet soils, resulting in flash flooding. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Rydal | - | The public reported dime size hail in Rydal. |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Harris, Corra White, House, Study, and Chapel | 2.4 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86002176 in Record Group 79. |
| Bartow County | All 20 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.