Mauk School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Taylor County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 37 GA 127 S., Mauk, 31058
When was it listed? December 2008
Category. building
Census division. Rupert
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 08001248 - 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

317 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 317 fires within 5 miles of Mauk School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,938 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 35 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	170
Arson/incendiarism	35
Railroad operations and maintenance	30
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Natural	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Smoking	15
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6

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
30 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Natural	64 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MARION011
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TAYLOR-019
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TAYLOR-018
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TAYLOR-016
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TAYLOR-017
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TAYLOR-015

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mauk School: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Georgia Silica Div	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Howard Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Junction City Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this property

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mauk, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Mauk	$200,000	An aerial and ground survey conducted by the National Weather Service, the Georgia State Patrol, and the Taylor County Emergency Management Director confirmed that the EF0 tornado, that originated in Alabama, crossed into Stewart county at 455 pm EST, Chattahoochee county at 505 pm EST, and then Marion county at 526 pm EST, continued into Taylor county, entering the county just south of Mauk at the intersection of the county line and Georgia Highway 127/240C. The tornado then continued on an east-northeastward track across the county, exiting into Crawford county where the county line and Georgia Highway 137 intersect, east of Flickling Mill. The tornado passed about three miles northeast of the county seat of Butler where two mobile homes off Georgia Highway 137 on Wainwright Road were destroyed and three others were heavily damaged. Numerous trees and power lines were downed along the spotty damage path produced by the tornado. Several reports of funnel clouds and rotating wall clouds were received from storm spotters and the public in the Howard area.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mauk	$30,000	The Taylor County Emergency Manager reported several trees and power lines blown down across western Taylor County. One tree fell on a house and a car near Black Creek Trail and a mobile home was damaged near the intersection of Parks Road and Black Creek Trail. A downed power line blocked Highway 96 near the intersection with Parks Road.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mauk	$30,000	The Taylor County Emergency Management Director reported that strong thunderstorm winds caused considerable damage in the Mauk area. The roof was blown off a home. An adjacent beauty shop was also damaged. Another home in the nearby area also sustained damage from the strong winds. A number of trees were down across the county, many in the Mauk area. Several power lines were also blown or knocked down.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mauk	$8,000	The Taylor County 911 center reported numerous trees blown down across the county with the greatest number around Butler. A large tree fell on a shed on Ed Davis Road.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mauk	$2,000	The Taylor County 911 center reported trees blown down around the intersection of Highways 137 and 90 and in Mauk.
March 2006	Hail	Mauk	-	Penny-sized hail was observed at the Mauk Post Office.

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001248 in Record Group 79.
Taylor County	All 5 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.