Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
From the record
“Rock City is a tourist attraction on Lookout Mountain in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Opened in May 1932, the attraction gained prominence after owners Garnet and Frieda Carter hired Clark Byers in 1935 to paint "See Rock City" barn advertisements throughout the Southeast and Midwest United States; Byers painted over 900 barn roofs and walls, in 19 states, by 1969.”
Wikipedia article Rock City (attraction), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Walker County · listed in 2014 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 14000619 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
314 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Rock City Gardens
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,864 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 101 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
125
Arson/incendiarism
101
Recreation and ceremony
20
Railroad operations and maintenance
17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
Equipment and vehicle use
15
Natural
8
Smoking
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Other causes
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Rock City Gardens: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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