Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The Robert and Missouri Garbutt House in Lyons, Georgia, also known as Twenty Columns, is a historic Classical Revival-style house built in 1908-1910. It was built by architect/builder Ivey P.”
Wikipedia article Robert and Missouri Garbutt House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Toombs County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00001564- 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
551 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 551 fires within 5 miles of Robert and Missouri Garbutt House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,493 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 102 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 burning
292
Arson/incendiarism
102
Equipment and vehicle use
55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
26
Misuse of fire by a minor
26
Recreation and ceremony
23
Smoking
16
Natural
9
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lyons, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
The Advance Progress Newspaper of Vidalia reported that lightning struck and killed a 45-year old man while on a construction site at the Toombs County Middle School on Center Road. The individual was part of a crew of construction workers at the school. While the others had sought shelter in their vehicles during the thunderstorm, the worker killed had returned to the construction site to retrieve some tools. It was while doing this that he was struck and killed by lightning.
The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that at least six trees were down across the county. Several power outages were noted as well.
The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that a thunderstorm downburst blew down 10 to 20 trees northeast of Lyons. In addition, one home lost about 40 shingles. One tree was also down in the city of Lyons as well.
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
6 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.
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.
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