Lone Oak Academy

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Meriwether County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4945 Lone Oak Rd., Lone Oak, 30220
When was it listed? January 2002
Category. building
Census division. Luthersville
National Register reference number. 01001536 - 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

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Lone Oak Academy between 1992 and 2019, burning about 754 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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	126
Arson/incendiarism	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Smoking	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3

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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-TROUP-010
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COWETA-003
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COWETA-002
13 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2008	Natural	32 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lone Oak Academy: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lone Oak/Post/Wilkes	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Post	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Wilkes	Gold	Prospect	Vein

Every working recorded in Meriwether County

Storms near this property

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Oak, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lone Oak	$300,000	The Merwiether County Emergency Management Director reported widespread thunderstorm wind damage across the county. Dozens of trees and power lines were down across the county. A total of four homes were damaged in the county. Two mobile homes in Greenville were completely moved off their foundations. One of the homes was destroyed, while the other was heavily damaged. No evidence of a tornado was found. The sun room of another home was damaged from a downed tree. The two other homes sustained minor damage. Ten roads across the county were closed from downed trees and power lines.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lone Oak	$10,000	Meriwether county 911 and a spotter reported trees down in the Lone Oak community which caused damage to houses and cars.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lone Oak	$5,000	The Meriwether County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were down across the northern part of the county.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lone Oak	$1,000	Numerous trees were downed between Lone Oak and Luthersville by thunderstorm winds.
April 2005	Hail	Lone Oak	-	The public reported nickel-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Meriwether 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	William D. Phillips Log Cabin	2.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001536 in Record Group 79.
Meriwether County	All 24 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.