Behavior Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Behavior Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Sapelo Island outside Hog Hammock, Georgia. The cemetery is located at the south end of Sapelo Island, 1.25 miles west of Hog Hammock, about 300 feet (91 m) off of Airport Road.”
Wikipedia article Behavior Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for McIntosh County · listed in 1996 · category: Site.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. S end of Sapelo Island, 1.25 mi W of Hog Hammock, Hog Hammock, 31327
When was it listed? August 1996
Category. site
Census division. Darien
National Register reference number. 96000915 - 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

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Behavior Cemetery between 1993 and 2015, burning about 2,367 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	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
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge	BARNARD#1
29 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge	BLB-NO2
20 August 2010	Natural	651 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MCINTOSH-002
11 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge	JOHNSON
3 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge	GILJE
22 July 2015	Natural	337 acres	Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge	BUCKWHEAT

Every fire recorded in McIntosh 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

4 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
Sapelo Island Lighthouse	0.5 miles	1997
Hog Hammock Historic District	1.2 miles	1996
First African Baptist Church at Raccoon Bluff	3.9 miles	1996
Ridge, The	7.4 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000915 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McIntosh County	All 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.