Porterdale Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Porterdale Historic District in Porterdale, Georgia is a 525 acres (212 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Its area is roughly the city limits of Porterdale north of Elm St., and it includes Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival, and other architecture.”
Wikipedia article Porterdale Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly the city limits of Porterdale north of Elm St., Porterdale, 30014
When was it listed? September 2001
Category. district
Census division. Covington-Porterdale
National Register reference number. 01000974 - 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

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of Porterdale Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 581 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 52 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	157
Misuse of fire by a minor	56
Arson/incendiarism	52
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Smoking	22
Recreation and ceremony	18
Natural	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	9

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-NEWTON-007
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020NEWTON001
30 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Porterdale Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	No Name	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
	Oxford Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Porterdale, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2013	Hail	Porterdale	$1,216,000	The public reported golf ball sized hail across Covington.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Porterdale	$5,000	The Newton County Emergency Manager reported multiple trees blown down near the intersection of Highway 162 and Lovers Lane. Nickel size hail was also reported at this location.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Porterdale	$5,000	The Newton county 911 center reported trees and power lines down on Flat Shoals Road.
January 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Porterdale	$3,000	The Newton County 911 Center reported that numerous trees were down throughout the county.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Porterdale	$1,500	The public reported a couple of trees blown down in the backyard of a house on Heaton Road.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Porterdale	$1,000	The Newton County 911 Center reported a tree down near Flat Shoals Road and Stephenson Road. Power lines were also down along Highway 278.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Porterdale	$1,000	The Newton county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down in Porterdale.
June 2016	Hail	Porterdale	-	The public reported quarter sized hail along Heaton Road.
June 2011	Hail	Porterdale	-	The public observed half-dollar-sized hail just south of Covington.
July 2000	Hail	Porterdale	-	The public reported dime size hail. In addition, the top of a 10 inch diameter pine tree was broken off.
August 1999	Hail	Porterdale	-	There were numerous reports from the public of hail up to golf ball size.
August 1999	Hail	Porterdale	-	Two more public reports indicated dime and golf ball size hail.
July 1997	Hail	Porterdale	-	Dime to quarter sized hail was reported throughout the area.

Every storm recorded in Newton County

Map coverage status

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Newton County Courthouse	2.7 miles	1980
Floyd Street Historic District	2.9 miles	1974
Covington Historic District	3.0 miles	1998
North Covington Historic District	3.0 miles	2000
Covington Mills and Mill Village Historic District	3.6 miles	2000
Orna Villa	3.9 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000974 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 13 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.
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.
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.