Harris-Murrow-Trowell House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Harris-Murrow-Trowell House in Screven County, Georgia was built c. 1888 - 1889 as one of the first houses in the small village of Oliver, after Central of Georgia Railway established a stop there. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.”
Wikipedia article Harris-Murrow-Trowell House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Screven 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.
Address. 473 Old Louisville Rd., Oliver, 30446
When was it listed? March 2009
Category. building
Census division. Newington
National Register reference number. 09000187 - 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

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Harris-Murrow-Trowell House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,264 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 47 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	120
Arson/incendiarism	47
Natural	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SCREVEN008
24 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2000	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-SCREVEN-009
9 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BULLOCH-005
9 August 2001	Debris and open burning	42 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-EFFINGHAM-002
6 August 1993	Debris and open burning	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Debris and open burning	59 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-EFFINGHAM-009

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this property

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oliver, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 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
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Oliver	$1,000	Law Enforcement reported a tree down on South Carolina Highway 17 near Oliver, Georgia.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Oliver	-	The Screven County 911 Call Center reported two trees down on Highway 24 southwest of Oliver.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Oliver	-	Screven County dispatch reported a tree down near Oliver Landing.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Oliver	-	Several trees and numerous large branches down,
November 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Oliver	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Screven 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 09000187 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Screven 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.
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.