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One of 24 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1999 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Woodville Baptist Church and School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The listing
- Address. Jct. of E. Peachtree Ave. and Chestnut St., Woodville, 30669
- When was it listed? April 1999
- Category. site
- Census division. Woodville
- National Register reference number. 99000455 - 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
141 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Woodville Baptist Church and School between 1992 and 2018, burning about 730 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 26 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 | 67 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-OGLETHORPE-005 |
| 22 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Woodville Baptist Church and School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briscoe Mine (Drake Mine) | Gold | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this property
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $6,000 | A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia concluded that the same thunderstorm cell that spawned an EF1 tornado across southern Oconee county produced strong damaging straight-line winds in far northeast Greene county, approximately two miles northeast of Woodville. Twenty-three trees were either uprooted or snapped within an approximately 50-acre wide area of woods. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $4,000 | The Greene County 911 center reported trees blown down from Woodville to Union Point. Locations include Peachtree Avenue and Highway 77, Veazey Street, Hillard Street, and Athens Highway in Union Point. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | - | Report of tree and powerlines down near intersection of S Dogwood Rd and Pine St. |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Point Historic District | 4.0 miles | 1991 | |
| Penfield Historic District | 4.0 miles | 1976 | |
| Peter W. Printup Plantation | 4.1 miles | 1985 | |
| Union Manufacturing Company | 4.3 miles | 1989 | |
 | Bethesda Baptist Church and Cemetery | 5.3 miles | 1998 |
 | Jefferson Hall | 5.9 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99000455 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.