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Photograph of Gillisonville Baptist Church
Photograph by Bigskybill, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gillisonville Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“Gillisonville Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church on U.S. 278 in Gillisonville, Jasper County, South Carolina. It was built in 1838, and is in the Greek Revival style.”

Wikipedia article Gillisonville Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Jasper County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. U.S. 278, Gillisonville, 29936
  • When was it listed? May 1971
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Grays-Tillman
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 71000786 - 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

321 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 321 fires within 5 miles of Gillisonville Baptist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,169 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 67 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 burning121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined100
Arson/incendiarism67
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this property

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gillisonville, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 23 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Flash FloodGillisonville$100,000Jasper County Emergency Management reported Langfordville Road collapsed over Beaverdam Branch, washing a car and occupant downstream. An adult female was rescued from the floodwaters without injury.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$9,000The emergency manager of Jasper County reported that a tree was knocked down through a mobile home and many other trees were downed on Highway 278 between Gillisonville and the county line.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$5,000Jasper County 911 call center reported several trees down on Grays Highway 4 miles south southwest of Gillisonville.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$3,000The Jasper County Warning Point reported trees and power lines down along portions of Gillison Bridge Road, between Tarboro, South Carolina and Gillisonville, South Carolina.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$2,000Law enforcement reported multiple trees down in Gillisonville.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$1,500The Jasper County Warning Point reported trees down on Woodsville Road, 3 miles west of Gillisonville, South Carolina.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$1,000The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Langfordville Road and Firetower Road.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$1,000The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway near Stock Farm Road and Grays Highway.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$1,000One tree was reported down near the Intersection of US Highway 278 and South Carolina 462.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$1,000Tree down on Log Hall Road and SC Highway 462.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$1,000Law enforcement reported a tree down on Morgandollar Road near Coosawhatchie.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindGillisonville$500A trained weather spotter reported a tree down at the intersection of Highway 278 and 462.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-The Jasper County Warning Point reported a tree down at the intersection of Grays Highway and Stock Farm Road and a small tree down at the 110 Block of Step School Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-Jasper County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Grays Highway and Gillison Branch Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree in the roadway at the intersection of SC 462 and Hall Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-The Jasper County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Grays Highway and Johnson Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-A tree was reported down near the intersection of Calf Pen Bay Road and Firetower Road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Grays Highway near the intersection with Morgandollar Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-The South Carolina State Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 278 and Morgandollar Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway near the intersection of Bailey Mills Road and Calf Pen Bay Road.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported several trees down on Morgandollar Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-Law enforcement reported a tree down near Gillison Branch Road and Woodsville Road.
July 2013Flash FloodGillisonville-Highway Patrol reported the intersection of Stock Farm Road and Morgan Dollar Road was closed due to flooding.
March 2012HailGillisonville-The public reported nickel sized hail along Highway 652 4 miles southwest of Gillisonville.
July 2011HailGillisonville-The Public reported dime to quarter size hail, 2 miles west-northwest of Gillisonville, South Carolina.
September 2004Tornado (F1)Gillisonville-A tornado knocked down trees. Many trees were snapped off and thrown in different directions.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-Numerous trees and powerlines down.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindGillisonville-Trees and power lines down

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Grays Consolidated High School4.8 miles

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000786 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jasper CountyAll 8 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.