BlockFrom the record
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Baldwin County · listed in 2005 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Central State Hospital Cemeteries
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- Address. 3 mi. SE of Milledgeville, centered on Cedar Lm, at Central State Hospital, bet. US 441 and GA 112, Hardwick, 31061
- When was it listed? July 2005
- Category. district
- Census division. Milledgeville
- National Register reference number. 05000694 - 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
298 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Central State Hospital Cemeteries between 1992 and 2020, burning about 930 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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 | 174 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Smoking | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| 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 1999 | Natural | 23 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-BALDWIN-002 |
| 3 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BALDWIN012 |
| 26 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-BALDWIN-005 |
| 26 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-BALDWIN-006 |
| 23 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-BALDWIN-002 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Central State Hospital Cemeteries: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midgeville Plant No. 1 | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardwick, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardwick | 1 hurt, $115,000 | The Baldwin County Emergency Management Director, the Baldwin County 911 Center, and the Union Recorder of Milledgeville reported that at least 12 trees were blown down approximately five miles south of Milledgeville. A large 200-year old oak tree fell on a home in Milledgeville causing extensive damage to the structure. A female resident of the house sustained minor injury to her knee from fallen debris in the damaged home. At least 10 of the trees were down in the Memory Hill Cemetery which resulted in destruction to more than a dozen gravestones. Many of the downed trees were 60 to 80 years old. |
| August 2020 | Lightning | Hardwick | $150,000 | The Baldwin County Emergency Manager reported a house struck by lightning in the 100 block of Colony Farm Road. Due to the resulting fire, the house was a total loss. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardwick | $2,000 | The public reported that a couple of power lines were down along Georgia Highway 112 south of Hardwick. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Hardwick | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Hardwick | - | The public reported penny size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Central Building, State Lunatic Asylum | 0.8 miles | 1978 |
 | Storehouse, State Lunatic Asylum | 0.9 miles | 1978 |
 | Fort-Hammond-Willis House | 1.4 miles | 2003 |
 | Samuel Rockwell House | 1.5 miles | 1978 |
 | Rose Hill | 1.6 miles | 2017 |
 | John Rutherford House | 1.7 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05000694 in Record Group 79. |
| Baldwin County | All 23 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.