Mineral Bluff Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Mineral Bluff Depot is a historic train depot of the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad that was built in 1887, in Mineral Bluff, Georgia, US. It is located at 150 Railroad Avenue.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 2007.”
Wikipedia article Mineral Bluff station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Fannin County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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.
Address. 150 Railroad Ave., Mineral Bluff, 30559
When was it listed? March 2007
Category. building
Census division. Mineral Bluff
National Register reference number. 07000089 - 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

452 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 452 fires within 5 miles of Mineral Bluff Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 621 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 81 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	278
Arson/incendiarism	81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	6
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
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mineral Bluff Depot: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Marble, Dimension, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, 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
J.Y.Allen Property	Iron, Manganese	Prospect
McKinney Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Residual
McKinney Mine.	Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	1812
Mineral Bluff Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
The W.M.Dallas Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Dillard & Prince Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mineral Bluff Area	Iron	Past Producer	Stratabound Concordant
Samples Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
The Dickey Property	Marble, Dimension	Occurrence
The Park Property	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineral Bluff, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2006: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineral Bluff	$10,000	The Fannin county 911 center reported that around five dozen trees were blown down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineral Bluff	$1,000	Fannin county 911 reported trees down on power lines.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineral Bluff	$500	The Fannin county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineral Bluff	$500	Fannin county 911 reported trees down.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineral Bluff	$250	The public reported that one tree was blown down near the intersection of Georgia Highway 60 and Curtis Switch Road.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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

3 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
James W. Baugh Homeplace	4.0 miles	1999
Blue Ridge Depot	4.2 miles	1982
Fannin County Courthouse	4.3 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000089 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fannin County	All 4 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.