Parrott Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Terrell County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly centered on the jct. of Main St. and GA Hwy 55/GA Hwy 520, Parrott, 39877
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. district
Census division. Parrott
National Register reference number. 04000528 - 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Parrott Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 497 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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	85
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
28 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-TERRELL-004
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WEBSTER-002
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WEBSTER-003
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TERRELL-004
20 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TERRELL-003
2 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-WEBSTER-002
29 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Terrell County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parrott, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Parrott	$10,000	A tree was blown down onto a house.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Parrott	$3,000	Multiple trees were blown down in Parrott.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Parrott	$3,000	A couple of power lines were blown down along Highway 520.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Parrott	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down in northern part of the county. The thunderstorm winds ripped off a tin roof, blew down trees of varying sizes and scattered limbs and debris.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Parrott	$2,000	Power lines were blown down in the Parrot area.
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Parrott	-	Two trees were blown down in the Parrott area.
March 2020	Flood	Parrott	-	Several roads were flooded within Terrell county but outside the city of Dawson.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Parrott	-	Two trees were blown down near Parrot along Highway 520.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Parrott	-	Around 3-4 acres of wheat crop were flattened from thunderstorm winds in northwest Terrell county.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Parrott	-	Trees were down in Parrott.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Parrott	-	Several trees were blown down across roads in Parrott.
June 2007	Hail	Parrott	-	Quarter size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Terrell 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000528 in Record Group 79.
Terrell County	All 6 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.
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.