Oglethorpe 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 9 records

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

• College HillNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971 · 0.8 miles away
• Tubman High Schoollisted 1994 · 0.3 miles away
• Academy of Richmond County-1926 Campuslisted 2004 · 0.3 miles away
• Shiloh Orphanagelisted 1996 · 0.7 miles away
• Gould-Weed Houselisted 1979 · 0.9 miles away
• Woodlawn Historic Districtlisted 2019 · 0.1 miles away
• Paine College Historic Districtlisted 2012 · 0.3 miles away
• Augusta Warehouse and Compress Companylisted 2024 · 0.4 miles away
• Harrisburg-West End Historic Districtlisted 1990 · 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.

• 1922 USGS Hephzibah quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Hephzibah quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Augusta West quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Augusta West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Hephzibah quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Oglethorpe Homes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 391 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 64 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:

• Berckman Hills
• Berckman Villas
• Country Club Hills
• Kennelworth
• Rockbrook
• Summerville

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Oglethorpe Homes: 9 occurrences, 7 producers, 5 past producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 Richmond 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 357975. 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.