Bethesda Baptist Church and Cemetery

Built in 1818. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Bethesda Baptist Church and Cemetery in Greene County, Georgia near Union Point, Georgia was built in 1818. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article Bethesda Baptist Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1818.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Jct. of Cty Rd. 120 and Cty Rd. 129, Union Point, 30669
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. building
Census division. Union Point
When was it built? 1818
National Register reference number. 98000967 - 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Bethesda Baptist Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2019, burning about 417 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 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	40
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	9
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GREENE-012
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Smoking	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bethesda Baptist Church and Cemetery: 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold, Iron, Mica. 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
Mitchell Hill Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Sunshine Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Taliaferro Magnetite Deposit	Iron	Past Producer	1917
Ga Manganese Co Mine/Taliaferro Magnetite Mine	Manganese	Past Producer	Residual
Georgia Manganese Company	Manganese	Unknown	1916
W. H. Murden Property	Manganese	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Greene 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

5 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
Jefferson Hall	3.8 miles	1989
Union Point Historic District	4.4 miles	1991
Union Manufacturing Company	4.5 miles	1989
Woodville Baptist Church and School	5.3 miles	1999
Peter W. Printup Plantation	5.6 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000967 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 24 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.