Chalk Level Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026.

From the record

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Coweta County · listed in 2026 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Jones Street to the north; Mitchell and Walthall streets, the southern border of Eastview Cemetery and Robinson Street, The district includes the discontiguous Fanner Street Cemetery on the west side of Farmer Street@.25 mile north o, Newman, 30263
When was it listed? January 2026
Category. district
Census division. Newnan
National Register reference number. 100012651 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

328 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Chalk Level Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 810 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 53 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	172
Arson/incendiarism	53
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Smoking	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	9

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
8 September 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-COWETA-005
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-COWETA-004
16 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-COWETA-006
10 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Coweta County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Chalk Level Historic District: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
B D Cole Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Lyndon Hill Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Sam Hill Quarry	Granite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Coweta 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

6 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
Cole Town District	0.5 miles	1982
Newnan Cotton Mill and Mill Village Historic District	0.8 miles	2002
Greenville Street-LaGrange Street Historic District	0.8 miles	1983
Newnan Commercial Historic District	0.9 miles	1990
Coweta County Courthouse	0.9 miles	1980
Willcoxon-Arnold House	1.0 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012651 in Record Group 79.
Coweta County	All 27 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.