Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
“Hopeful Baptist Church is a historic church in Keysville, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1993.”
Wikipedia article Hopeful Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Burke County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Hopeful Baptist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,542 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 52 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 | 128 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 52 |
| Natural | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-BURKE-014 |
| 26 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 8.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2014-BURKE-003 |
| 19 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 6.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-BURKE-025 |
| 17 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keysville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado. 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 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Keysville | $5,000 | An EF0 touched down just east northeasts of Keysville and took down many trees. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $4,000 | Dispatch reported powerlines down in the Keysville area with outages. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $3,000 | Sheriff reported trees down on George Perkins Road northwest of Waynesboro. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $3,000 | Sheriff reported trees down on Hwy 305 just north of Gough. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $2,000 | Fire reported powerlines down with outages in the Keysville area. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $100 | ASOS unit at Daniel Field Airport in Augusta measured a peak wind gust of 49 knots, or 56 mph, at 1444 EDT (1344 EST). |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | $10 | Burke County Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down on Farmers Bridge Rd just north of Brier Creek. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | DOT in Burke County reported trees down on Craig Rd near Winter Rd. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | A tree was downed onto a power line in the 100 block of Hopson Mill Rd near Blythe, GA. Time estimated. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Burker County Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down on Hwy 88. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Reports of tree limbs down, ranging in size from small to large, in Keysville and vicinity. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Dispatch reported power lines down on Tom Bartles Road and Cobbham Road. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Keysville | - | Burke County EM reported dime size hail in Keysville lasting 5 minutes. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Keysville Post Office reported several limbs down, some large, along Martin Luther King Jr. Road. Dime size hail was also reported. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Keysville | - | Fire department reported golf ball size hail in Keysville. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Public reported large limbs down and the power out in the area. |
| March 2008 | Tornado (EF2) | Keysville | - | A supercell spawned a tornado over Wrens in Jefferson county which moved across northern Burke county. It destroyed a church, a mobile home, and a large portion of a dairy farming business and damaged other homes and mobile homes. Numerous trees and powerlines were down. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Sheriff reported several trees down in the Keysville area. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Highway dept. reported trees down on Corley road east of Keysville. |
| December 2005 | Hail | Keysville | - | Fire Dept reported quarter size hail. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | Burke EM reported trees and powerlines down from Keysville to Vidette. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Keysville | - | Keysville FD reported 3/4 inch hail and 1.5 inches of rain. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | EPD reports microburst took down large tree branches. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Keysville | - | EPD reports dime size hail. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Keysville | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keysville | - | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Hail | Keysville | - | no account filed |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Waynesboro Commercial Historic District | 6.9 miles | 1993 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92001734 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Burke County | All 9 listed properties in this county. |
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