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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Catoosa County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Blackford-Gray House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Blackford--Gray House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 319 Gray St., Graysville, 30736
- When was it listed? April 2007
- Category. building
- Census division. Boynton Ridge
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
- National Register reference number. 07000247 - 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
383 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 383 fires within 5 miles of Blackford-Gray House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 600 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 51 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 | 202 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 51 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 43 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 28 |
| Smoking | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
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 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CATOOSA-005 |
| 8 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-CATOOSA-006 |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-CATOOSA-007 |
| 4 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Blackford-Gray House: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shofner Barite Prospect | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | Barite | |
| Shofner Barite Prospect | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | ||
| Clark Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Graysville Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hales Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graysville, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graysville | $500 | The public reported that two trees were blown down on a local road. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graysville | $250 | The public reported that a very large nearly 200 year old tree was blown down. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graysville | - | Report of tree down on Swanson Rd. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graysville | - | Report of tree down on Swanson Rd. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graysville | - | A large tree and powerlines downed across Graysville Road. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Graysville | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Graysville | - | The public reported penny-sized 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Whitman-Anderson House | 4.5 miles | 1977 |
 | Catoosa County Courthouse | 4.6 miles | 2006 |
 | Ringgold Commercial Historic District | 4.7 miles | 1992 |
 | Ringgold Depot | 4.7 miles | 1978 |
 | Ringgold Gap Battlefield | 4.8 miles | 2011 |
 | Stone Church | 6.2 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07000247 in Record Group 79. |
| Catoosa County | All 9 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.