Durham Place

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Oglethorpe County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 261 N. Main St., Maxeys, 30667
When was it listed? June 2017
Category. building
Census division. Maxeys
National Register reference number. 100001020 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Durham Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 794 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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	99
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	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
29 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-OGLETHORPE-010
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-OGLETHORPE-005
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OGLETHORPE-012
15 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-OGLETHORPE-008
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Oglethorpe 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 Durham Place: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
	Briscoe Mine (Drake Mine)	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Oglethorpe County

Storms near this property

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maxeys, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxeys	$7,000	The Oglethorpe County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down from Maxeys to Lexington. Locations include Union Point Road in Maxeys and Upson Court in Lexington.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxeys	$7,000	The public reported that the roof was ripped off a barn by downburst thunderstorm winds. Part of the side of the barn was also torn off the structure by the strong winds. The resultant debris was scattered for several hundred feet downstream.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxeys	$5,000	The Oglethorpe county 911 center reported that approximately 20 trees were blown down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxeys	$1,500	The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported that four trees and a power line were blown down in the Maxeys area.
April 2005	Hail	Maxeys	-	The public reported penny-sized hail at a local grocery store.

Every storm recorded in Oglethorpe 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Maxeys Historic District	under 500 feet	2022
	Amis-Elder House	6.7 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001020 in Record Group 79.
Oglethorpe County	All 12 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.