Booker Heights, Georgia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 13 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Lapham-Patterson HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970 · 0.6 miles away
• Dewey City Historic Districtlisted 2008 · 0.4 miles away
• Stevens Street Historic Districtlisted 2001 · 0.5 miles away
• B'nai Israel Synagogue and Cemeterylisted 1997 · 0.5 miles away
• Church of the Good Shepherdlisted 1987 · 0.6 miles away
• Dawson Street Residential Historic Districtlisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away
• Judge Henry William and Francesca Hopkins Houselisted 2013 · 0.7 miles away
• Dr. David Brandon Houselisted 1970 · 0.8 miles away
• Hardy Bryan Houselisted 1970 · 0.8 miles away
• Thomas County Courthouselisted 1970 · 0.9 miles away
• Ephraim Ponder Houselisted 1970 · 0.9 miles away
• Thomasville Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1984 · 1.0 miles away

Every listing in Thomas County

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Thomasville quadrangle1:62500
• 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Thomasville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Booker Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 890 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Dewey City
• Homestead Park
• Fletcherville
• Mount Olive (historical)
• Theodore Heights
• Thomasville

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Booker Heights: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Thomas County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343691. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.