Aaron and Margaret Parker Jr. House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“House is a historic plantation house built c. 1830 that is one of the oldest houses in Rockdale County, Georgia, United States. It is located at 4835 Flat Bridge Road inside the Panola Mountain State Park.”
Wikipedia article Aaron and Margaret Parker Jr. House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Rockdale 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. Parker, Aaron and Margaret, Jr., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4835 Flat Bridge Rd., SW., Stockbridge, 30281
When was it listed? May 2009
Category. building
Census division. South Rockdale
National Register reference number. 09000271 - 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Aaron and Margaret Parker Jr. House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 445 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 32 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	67
Arson/incendiarism	32
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	3
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
29 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020ROCKDALE002
23 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HENRY001
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020ROCKDALE001
17 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020DEKALB001
15 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Smoking	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Rockdale 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 Aaron and Margaret Parker Jr. House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite. 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
	North Georgia Quarry	Granite	Producer

Every working recorded in Rockdale 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
Conyers Residential Historic District	7.7 miles	1990
Conyers Commercial Historic District	7.7 miles	1988
Almand-O'Kelley-Walker House	7.8 miles	1998
Rockdale County Jail	7.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000271 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockdale County	All 6 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.