First Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The First Methodist Episcopal Church in Stillmore, Georgia, also known as Stillmore United Methodist Church and as Stillmore Methodist Episcopal Church South, was built in 1907. A fire on December 15, 1915, destroyed all but the exterior walls of the church, and in 1916 it was rebuilt to the original plans with minor exception.”
Wikipedia article First Methodist Episcopal Church (Stillmore, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Emanuel County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Third Ave. and Third St., Stillmore, 30471
When was it listed? February 1999
Category. building
Census division. Twin City
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
Architect. Charles E. Choate
National Register reference number. 99000160 - 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

276 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of First Methodist Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,218 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 38 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	169
Arson/incendiarism	38
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4

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 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2001	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-EMANUEL-008
7 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-EMANUEL-009
7 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019CANDLER002
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-EMANUEL-010
24 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021EMANUEL009

Every fire recorded in Emanuel County

Storms near this property

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stillmore, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 lightning, 1 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
August 2010	Lightning	Stillmore	$500,000	The Savannah Morning News reported that lightning struck the high school wing of the David Emanuel Academy near Stillmore in rural southeast Emanuel county. The two-story building, which was constructed in 1904, was set on fire by the lightning strike and completely destroyed. The fire destroyed a science lab, classroom, and wrestling gym.
April 1999	Tornado (F0)	Stillmore	$5,000	The Emanuel county 911 center reported a few trees down and hail of unknown size in Stillmore. They received numerous reports from the public and county sheriff deputies of a funnel cloud in the Oak Park area There were public reports of a tornado between Oak Park and Stillmore, with possible damage to a trailer. Radar signatures indicated rotation strong enough to produce a brief tornado touchdown. The F0 intensity as well as the path length and width were estimated. The same storm cell may have later produced a tornado in Candler county.
April 1999	Hail	Stillmore	$5,000	Emanuel county 911 reported dime to quarter size hail. Some cars were damaged.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Stillmore	$2,000	The Emanuel County 911 Center reported that several trees were down. Radar data suggests that most of this occurred between Stillmore and Norristown as an area of thunderstorms moved southwest across the county, initiated by the earlier thunderstorms that caused damage in the far eastern part of the county between Garfield and Twin City.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Stillmore	$1,000	The Emanuel County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down on Edenfield Road near Stillmore.
August 2009	Lightning	Stillmore	$500	The Emanuel County 911 Center reported that lightning struck a power pole and set it on fire.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Stillmore	$250	The Emanuel County 911 Center reported that one tree was blown down.
April 1993	Hail	Stillmore	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emanuel 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000160 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emanuel County	All 9 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.