Midway Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Midway Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church at 4635 Dallas Highway/GA 120 SW in Powder Springs, Georgia. The congregation was founded in 1850 with fourteen organizing members.”
Wikipedia article Midway Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Cobb County · listed in 1986 · 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. 4635 Dallas Hwy./GA 120 SW, Powder Springs, 30127
When was it listed? December 1986
Category. building
Census division. Acworth-Kennesaw
National Register reference number. 86003526 - 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Midway Presbyterian Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2019, burning about 165 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 47 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	63
Arson/incendiarism	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-PAULDING-014
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PAULDING-012
18 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PAULDING-010
15 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Cobb 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 Midway Presbyterian Church and Cemetery: 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur, Iron-Pyrite. 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
D. Ragsdale Prospect	Iron-Pyrite	Occurrence	Massive Sulfide
Don Watson Prospect	Sulfur	Prospect
Mrs Sunie Clay Prospect	Sulfur	Prospect
J. B. Kemp Prospect	Gold	Past Producer
J.B.Kemp's Property (Hathaway Property)	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Mason Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
W. H. Hadaway Prospect	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in Cobb County

Storms near this property

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powder Springs, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1997: 3 hail. 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
April 1993	Hail	Powder Springs	-	Golfball-size hail accumulated to a depth of 4 inches.
April 1997	Hail	Powder Springs	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Powder Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cobb 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
Gilgal Church Battle Site	2.3 miles	1975
Braswell-Carnes House	4.0 miles	1984
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park	5.4 miles	1966
William Gibbs McAdoo House	5.4 miles	1978
Hiram Butler House	5.6 miles	1995
Andrew J. Cheney House	5.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003526 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cobb County	All 48 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.