BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Chattooga County · listed in 2012 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Paradise Gardens
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 16 buildingss, 2 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 84 Knox St., Pennville, 30747
- When was it listed? March 2012
- Category. district
- Census division. Summerville
- National Register reference number. 12000166 - 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
581 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 581 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,214 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 225 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 | 278 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 225 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020CHATTOOGA006 |
| 9 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-CHATTOOGA-009 |
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Paradise Gardens: 6 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggregate Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Justice Deposit | Aluminum, Iron | Prospect | ||
| Summerville Bauxite | Aluminum | Past Producer | Weathering Residual | |
| Taylor Mine | Aluminum | Past Producer | ||
| Maddox's Mine Area | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| Maddox's Mine Area-B | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| Menlo Area | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Penn Place | 0.7 miles | 1988 |
| Riegel Hospital | 2.0 miles | 2002 | |
 | Summerville Depot | 2.8 miles | 1992 |
| Summerville Commercial Historic District | 2.8 miles | 2012 | |
 | Chattooga County Courthouse | 2.9 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000166 in Record Group 79. |
| Chattooga 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.
- 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.