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Westside Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Troup County · listed in 2011 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Westside Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 503 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 33 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 burning70
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2014Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-HARRIS-002
14 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1993Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TROUP-004

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Westside Historic District: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rockford PlacerGoldPast Producer
Rockford PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Troup 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
West Point Commercial Historic District0.3 miles2006
Riverside Club-Magnolia Club0.4 miles2015
Hawkes Children's Library of West Point0.4 miles1990
West Point Freight Depot0.6 miles2005
West Point Public School0.7 miles1999
Eastside Historic District0.8 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000264 in Record Group 79.
Troup CountyAll 35 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.