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Photograph of Carswell Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery
Photograph by Jud McCranie, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Carswell Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery

Built in 1870 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Carswell Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic Black church and cemetery which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The church, a replacement for an earlier church burned in 1919, was destroyed by arson in 2014.”

Wikipedia article Carswell Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Jenkins County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1870, Gothic Revival.

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. Big Buckhead Rd. off US 25/GA 21, Perkins, 30442
  • When was it listed? January 1996
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Millen
  • When was it built? 1870
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 95001564 - 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

107 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Carswell Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery between 1993 and 2020, burning about 625 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 19 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 burning62
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2020Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021BURKE008
3 September 2020Debris and open burning5.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021BURKE006
29 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning3.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JENKINS-010
11 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Jenkins County

Storms near this property

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perkins, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 21 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPerkins$10,000An employee at Magnolia Springs State Park reported multiple trees down, including one that landed on a car. The employee also reported dime size hail.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPerkins$5,000Trees and powerlines down on Fred Chance Road.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindPerkins$5,000Several large trees were blown down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindPerkins$2,000There were trees reported down throughout the Magnolia Springs State Park.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPerkins$2,000Trees down at the Magnolia Country Club.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPerkins$1,000The police reported 1 tree down on Highway 23.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPerkins$1,000Tree down along Perkins Green Fork Rd. Tree down along the Jenkins/Burke county line.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPerkins$750Numerous tree limbs were reported down in Magnolia Springs State Park.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindPerkins$500The public reported large tree limbs down due to thunderstorm winds in Magnolia Springs State Park.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPerkins$500A tree was reported down on Habersham Church Road.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindPerkins$500Large limbs fell at the Magnolia Springs State Park.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPerkins$250A few small tree limbs were reported down along with dime size hail.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindPerkins-A fire fighter reported several trees down on a property in Perkins, GA.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindPerkins-A video received on Twitter showed several medium size trees down along Georgia Highway 23 approximately 5 miles southwest of Sardis, GA.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPerkins-A tree was reported down on U.S. Highway 25 North.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPerkins-The Jenkins County 911 Call Center reported 4 trees down near Perkins, GA.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPerkins-Law enforcement reported numerous trees down throughout the community of Perkins.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPerkins-The Jenkins County Fire and Rescue reported trees and power lines down on Perkins-Greenfork Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPerkins-Many trees were uprooted in Magnolia Springs State Park. Two trees fell on a residence. Trees were 30 to 40 feet tall.
May 2009HailPerkins-The public reported quarter size hail along State Highway 23, five miles west-southwest of Sardis, Georgia.
May 2007HailPerkins-Hail fell at Magnolia Springs State Park.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindPerkins-Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees along Highway 23.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Perkins-A weak tornado knocked down trees and large limbs.
September 2000Tornado (F0)Perkins-Several trees and numerous limbs down.
May 1998HailPerkins-no account filed
April 1998Thunderstorm WindPerkins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jenkins 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

1 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
Birdsville Plantation3.8 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001564 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jenkins CountyAll 5 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.