Marsh-Warthen House

Built in 1836 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Marsh-Warthen House in Lafayette, Georgia is a historic Greek Revival house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is open as a historic house museum and events venue, and is owned by the government of Walker County, Georgia.”
Wikipedia article Marsh-Warthen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Walker County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1836, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Marsh--Warthen House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N. Main St., Lafayette, 30728
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. building
Census division. LaFayette
When was it built? 1836
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 04001467 - 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

424 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 424 fires within 5 miles of Marsh-Warthen House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 844 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 126 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	246
Arson/incendiarism	126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WALKER-009
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Marsh-Warthen House: 6 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
Wilmer Frye Prospect	Iron, Manganese	Prospect
Boss Tripoli Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Horine Development Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Patton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Glenn Prospect	Iron	Prospect
McLamore's Cove Area-A	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
McLamore's Cove Area-B	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Shinbone Ridge Area-C	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Warrenfel's Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lafayette, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
February 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lafayette	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	LaFayette	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and powerlines in and around LaFayette as well as the southern portions of the county.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	LaFayette	$500	Trees and powerlines were reported down by County EMA near the town of Cedar Grove.
February 1993	Hail	Lafayette	-	no account filed
March 1993	Hail	Lafayette	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walker 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

4 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
Chattooga Academy	under 500 feet	1980
Walker County Courthouse	0.3 miles	1980
McLemore Cove Historic District	5.1 miles	1994
Miller Brothers Farm	7.0 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001467 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Walker County	All 16 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.