DeSoto Homes, 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 records

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

• Floyd County Courthouselisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
• Myrtle Hill Cemeterylisted 1983 · 0.7 miles away
• U.S. Post Office and Courthouselisted 1975 · 0.7 miles away
• Between the Rivers Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.7 miles away
• Rome Clock Towerlisted 1980 · 0.7 miles away
• Sullivan-Hillyer Houselisted 2002 · 0.9 miles away
• Between the Rivers Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1989 · 1.0 miles away
• Upper Avenue A Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.2 miles away
• Lower Avenue A Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.3 miles away
• Jackson Hill Historic Districtlisted 1997 · 0.8 miles away
• South Broad Street Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
• Coosa Country Club Golf Courselisted 2022 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1886 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
• 1898 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
• 1899 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
• 1904 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Rome North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Rome quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 340 fires within 5 miles of DeSoto Homes between 1992 and 2019, burning about 798 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 119 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:

• DeSoto (historical)
• Mount Berry
• Rome
• North Rome
• Chiaha (historical)
• Summerville Park

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of DeSoto Homes: 5 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Floyd County

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

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 353610. 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.