Photograph of Blood Mountain Shelter — Photograph by Chris Teasdale, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Blood Mountain Trail Shelter

Built in 1937 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Lumpkin County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1937, rustic architecture, by National Park Service.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Blood Mountain Wilderness Area, Blairsville, 30512
When was it listed? January 2013
Category. building
When was it built? 1937
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 12001145 - 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Blood Mountain Trail Shelter between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,140 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	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
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Natural	2.5 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	not named
1 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	WATERFALL
20 July 1998	Natural	9.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	BLOOD

Every fire recorded in Lumpkin 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001145 in Record Group 79.
Lumpkin 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.