Brooks Family Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Banks County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 584 Silver Shoals Rd., Lula, 30633
When was it listed? July 2013
Category. district
National Register reference number. 13000529 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Brooks Family Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 362 acres in total. 4 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	107
Smoking	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	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 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN002
4 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1995	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Banks 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Hebron Church, Cemetery, and Academy	4.7 miles	1985
	New Salem Covered Bridge	5.6 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000529 in Record Group 79.
Banks County	All 15 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.