R.M. Jones General Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Jones General Store, also known as the Crossroads Store, is a historic general store in Jones Crossroads, Troup County, Georgia. The rock building was constructed by Monroe Jones in 1903.”
Wikipedia article R. M. Jones General Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Troup County · listed in 2009 · 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.
Listed as. Jones, R.M., General Store - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 6926 Whitesville Rd., LaGrange, 31833
When was it listed? February 2009
Category. building
Census division. West Point
National Register reference number. 08001321 - 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of R.M. Jones General Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 760 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 17 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	76
Arson/incendiarism	17
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	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 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-HARRIS-002
13 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HARRIS002
11 September 2007	Natural	59 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-TROUP-001
22 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2002	Natural	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TROUP-003
12 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of R.M. Jones General Store: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Beryllium. 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
	Hogg Mine	Mica, Beryllium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Troup 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

4 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
Rutledge House	4.7 miles	1977
Potts Brothers Store	7.7 miles	1983
Henry and Lura Miller House	7.9 miles	2020
Eastside Historic District	8.0 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001321 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Troup County	All 35 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.