BlockFrom the record
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Harris County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Thornton Plantation
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The listing
- Address. 702 Piedmont Lake Rd. and 404 Hopkins Farm rd., Pine Mountain, 31822
- When was it listed? October 2004
- Category. building
- Census division. Pine Mountain
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 04001212 - 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
100 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Thornton Plantation between 1992 and 2019, burning about 649 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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 | 61 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-HARRIS-001 |
| 13 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020HARRIS002 |
| 25 August 2015 | Natural | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-HARRIS-005 |
| 21 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 July 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 July 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Mountain, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 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 1997 | Hail | Pine Mountain | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sunnyside School-Midway Baptist Church and Midway Cemetery Historic District | 1.0 miles | 1999 |
 | Story-Hadley House | 2.1 miles | 2002 |
 | Whitesville Methodist Episcopal Church, South, andd Cemetery | 2.4 miles | 2002 |
| Cason and Virginia Callaway House | 5.6 miles | 2002 | |
 | Hamilton Baptist Church and Pastorium | 7.8 miles | 1982 |
 | Harris County Courthouse | 7.9 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 04001212 in Record Group 79. |
| Harris County | All 14 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.