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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Murray County · listed in 2009 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Pleasant Valley Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by CSX RR., city limits, & land lot lines., Crandall, 30705
- When was it listed? September 2009
- Category. district
- Census division. Crandall-Eton
- National Register reference number. 09000751 - 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
313 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,530 acres in total. 13 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 | 170 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 47 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 23 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | HICKORY RIDGE |
| 8 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | TURTLE |
| 5 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020MURRAY007 |
| 25 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-MURRAY-004 |
| 24 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-MURRAY-001 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley Historic District: 9 past producers, 6 occurrences, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Talc-Soapstone, Barium-Barite, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earnest Galena Prospect | Lead | Prospect | ||
| Fort Mountain Mine | Talc-Soapstone | Past Producer | ||
| Hayes Rock Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| J.F.Love Property | Iron, Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Mill Creek Copper Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| W.F.Hampton Property | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | ||
| C.C. and J.H. Keith Property | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Hickey Property Mine-A? | Iron | Past Producer | Residual | |
| J.K. Keith Property | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| J.W.Coffey Property | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crandall, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Crandall | $2,000 | A USGS stream gauge on Holly Creek at Smyrna Ramhurst Road or 3 miles south of Chatsworth reached flood stage of 10 feet. The creek crest at 11.9 feet. Minor flooding occurred in the woodlands...fields and pasture upstream and downstream from the gauge. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crandall | $500 | The Murray County 911 Center reported that a couple of trees were blown down along Highway 225 North, in the Crandall area. |
| July 2005 | Flash Flood | Crandall | $250 | The Murray County 911 Center reported that Mill Creek Road was flooded by Mill Creek. The road was impassable. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Crandall | - | The Public reported nickel to quarter size hail from Chatsworth to Crandall. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Crandall | - | The Murray County Fire Department and Rescue Squad reported penny-sized hail. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Crandall | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Crandall | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fort Mountain | 5.2 miles | 1977 |
| Murray County High School Historic District | 5.9 miles | 2004 | |
| Chatsworth Downtown Historic District | 6.2 miles | 2005 | |
 | Wright Hotel | 6.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Murray County Courthouse | 6.2 miles | 1980 |
| Spring Place Historic District | 7.7 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000751 in Record Group 79. |
| Murray County | All 9 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.