Sunnyside School-Midway Baptist Church and Midway Cemetery Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Sunnyside School-Midway Baptist Church and Midway Cemetery Historic District is a historic district with a school and Baptist church building in Hamilton, Georgia. The school was built during 1920-1921, and the church was constructed in 1925.”
Wikipedia article Sunnyside School-Midway Baptist Church and Midway Cemetery Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Harris County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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 2 buildingss, 2 sitess, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Sunnyside School--Midway Baptist Church and Midway Cemetery Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2495 Hopewell Church Rd. at Sunnyside Church Rd., Hamilton, 31822
When was it listed? September 1999
Category. district
Census division. Pine Mountain
National Register reference number. 99001101 - 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside School-Midway Baptist Church and Midway Cemetery Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 729 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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	66
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-HARRIS-001
13 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HARRIS002
21 August 1996	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this property

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamilton, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 19 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$25,000	An amateur radio operator reported trees blown down from Highway 1 south of Hamilton to Highway 85 southwest of Waverly Hall.
August 2007	Lightning	Hamilton	$25,000	The Columbus Ledger-Inquirer reported that lightning struck near a school complex causing damage to the fire alarm systems and air conditioners at three schools, Carver Middle School, Harris County High School, and Mulberry Creek Elementary school.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$25,000	A former National Weather Service employee reported that many trees were blown down two miles east of Pine Mountain. A home in this area was also damaged by the downed trees. The Harris county 911 center reported that several trees were down between Hamilton and Pine Mountain.
February 2022	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$20,000	The Emergency Manager reported Mobley Road washed out at Little Branch. Radar estimates indicate that between 3 and 5 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
July 2000	Lightning	Hamilton	$10,000	The Harris County Journal reported that two lightning strikes, both within a 30 minute time frame, caused considerable damage to the computer modems and the Motorola 911 system used for 911 center dispatching. An exact damage estimate was not available.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$6,000	The Harris County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down in Hamilton.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	A trained storm spotter observed several trees and power lines down between Hamilton and Waverly Hall.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	The Harris County 911 Center, along with the Harris County Sheriff's Office, and Columbus television station WTVM reported that dozens of trees were down from northwest to southeast across the county, five miles northwest of Hamilton to just southeast of Waverly Hall near the Talbot county line. Trees were down on Georgia Highway 85 between Waverly Hall and the Meriwether county line among other areas.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	The Harris county 911 center reported several trees and power lines down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	Numerous tree limbs and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$3,000	The Harris County Emergency Manager reported a few trees blown down from around Hamilton to Cataula.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$2,000	The Harris County 911 center reported several trees blown down along Calhoun Road near Hamilton.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$2,000	The Harris County 911 Center reported that several trees were blown down between Hamilton and Lake Harding. Two of the trees were down at the 911 Center.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$2,000	no account filed
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$1,500	The Harris County Sheriff's Office reported that several trees were blown down on U.S. Route 27.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$1,000	Harris county 911 reported several trees and power lines down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$600	Thunderstorm winds knocked down three trees. One of the trees was blocking Georgia Highway 129.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$500	The Harris County 911 Center reported two trees were blown down across Highway 116.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$500	Harris county 911 reported several trees down on the highway.
October 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$500	The Harris county sheriff's office reported 3 trees were knocked down on highway 116.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked several large trees down.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$500	A few large tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds which caused sporadic power outages.
March 2021	Hail	Hamilton	-	The public reported quarter-size hail in Hamilton.
June 2015	Hail	Hamilton	-	The Harris County Emergency Manager reported penny sized hail in Hamilton.
August 2011	Hail	Hamilton	-	A storm spotter observed quarter-sized hail between Hamilton and Waverly Hall.
April 2010	Hail	Hamilton	-	The Harris County Emergency Management Director relayed reports of penny-sized hail near Hamilton and Pine Mountain Valley.
March 2009	Hail	Hamilton	-	A Harris County Sheriff's Deputy observed penny-sized hail west of Hamilton. Radar data suggests that hail of similar size likely fell across much of southwest, west central and north central Harris county. This is a separate thunderstorm from the storm which also produced penny-sized hail earlier between Hamilton and Pine Mountain Valley.
March 2009	Hail	Hamilton	-	The Harris County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail. The Harris county Emergency Management Director observed less than penny-sized hail just south of Pine Mountain Valley.
February 2008	Hail	Hamilton	-	The Harris County 911 Center observed nickel-sized hail.
August 2008	Hail	Hamilton	-	The Harris County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail.
March 2005	Hail	Hamilton	-	The Harris County 911 center reported quarter-sized hail.
June 1998	Hail	Hamilton	-	A HAM operator reported dime to quarter size hail.
July 1998	Hail	Hamilton	-	Harris county 911 reported dime size hail and several large trees down.
November 1997	Hail	Hamilton	-	The public reported hail ranging from nickel to one inch size.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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

6 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
Thornton Plantation	1.0 miles	2004
Story-Hadley House	1.1 miles	2002
Whitesville Methodist Episcopal Church, South, andd Cemetery	2.9 miles	2002
Cason and Virginia Callaway House	5.7 miles	2002
Hamilton Baptist Church and Pastorium	7.6 miles	1982
Harris County Courthouse	7.6 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001101 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Harris County	All 14 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.