Shermantown, 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 54 shown

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

• Sweet Auburn Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976 · 0.2 miles away
• Prince Hall Masonic LodgeNational Historic Landmark · listed 2001 · 0.2 miles away
• Martin Luther King Jr. Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974 · 0.4 miles away
• Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site and Preservation DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1980 · 0.4 miles away
• Georgia State CapitolNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971 · 0.7 miles away
• Odd Fellows Building and Auditoriumlisted 1975 · 0.0 miles away
• Coca-Cola Building Annexlisted 1996 · 0.1 miles away
• Butler Street Colored Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away
• Grady Hospitallisted 1981 · 0.2 miles away
• First Congregational Churchlisted 1979 · 0.3 miles away
• J. K. Orr Shoe Companylisted 1995 · 0.3 miles away
• Southern Bell Telephone Company Buildinglisted 1978 · 0.3 miles away

Every listing in Fulton 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.

• 1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
• 1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Bolton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Northwest Atlanta quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Northwest Atlanta quadrangle1:24000
• 1997 USGS Northwest Atlanta quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Shermantown between 1998 and 2005, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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:

• Slabtown (historical)
• Atlanta
• Beulah Heights
• Brooklyn
• Cabbage Town
• Capitol Homes

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Shermantown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 Fulton 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 1705365. 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.