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One of 8 National Register listings published here for Effingham County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ash Farmhouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 8603 Old Louisville Road, Newington, 30446
- When was it listed? January 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Shawnee
- National Register reference number. 100011427 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
207 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Ash Farmhouse between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,220 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 42 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 | 112 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 42 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 21 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EFFINGHAM005 |
| 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 |
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 100011427 in Record Group 79. |
| Effingham County | All 8 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.