Pine Mountain Gold Mine

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 1881 Stockmar Rd., Villa Rica, 30180
When was it listed? August 2008
Category. district
Census division. Winston
National Register reference number. 08000834 - 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

275 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Pine Mountain Gold Mine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 721 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 92 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	96
Arson/incendiarism	92
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Recreation and ceremony	14
Smoking	11
Natural	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
7 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	8.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-PAULDING-007
7 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pine Mountain Gold Mine: 7 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron-Pyrite, Sulfur, Gold, Copper. 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
Choran Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Jenny Stone Prospect	Iron-Pyrite, Zinc	Occurrence	Gossan
Keaten-Thomas Prospect	Iron-Pyrite, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Gossan
Villa Rica	Iron-Pyrite, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, Nickel	Occurrence	Stratabound Concordant Massive Sulfide
Villa Rica Plant & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Keaton-Thomas Prospect	Sulfur	Prospect
Villa Rica Mine	Sulfur	Past Producer
A. C. Watkins Prospect	Iron-Pyrite, Gold	Occurrence	Pyrite
Lasseter Prospect	Iron-Pyrite	Past Producer	Pyrite
Chambers Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
John Thomas Carnes Family Log House	3.5 miles	2001
Douglas County Courthouse	7.8 miles	2002
Douglasville Commercial Historic District	7.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000834 in Record Group 79.
Douglas County	All 7 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.