Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
From the record
“The Chief Vann House is the first brick residence in the Cherokee Nation, and has been called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation". Owned by the Cherokee Chief James Vann, the Vann House is a Georgia Historic Site on the National Register of Historic Places, Built in 1804, it is one of the oldest remaining structures in the northern third of the state of Georgia.”
Wikipedia article Chief Vann House Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Murray County · listed in 1969 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.69000044- 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
529 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 529 fires within 5 miles of Vann House
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,023 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 77 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
288
Arson/incendiarism
77
Misuse of fire by a minor
61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
54
Equipment and vehicle use
17
Recreation and ceremony
13
Smoking
10
Natural
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
10 workings within 5 miles of Vann House: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Talc-Soapstone, Barium-Barite, Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Spring Place, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF-1 tornado with peak winds of 85 to 90 MPH traveled just under 3 miles across northern Chatsworth in Murray County. The tornado touched down just east of Highway 225 destroying a barn on Dogwood Circle. The tornado continued moving east striking a tractor-trailer storage facility along Lowy Road where it overturned a trailer and snapped or uprooted numerous trees. Continuing east, the tornado struck an industrial building at the intersection of Highland Road and Treadwell Road, peeling back a large section of the roof. An apartment complex across Treadwell Road suffered significant shingle damage and some minor structural damage to the roof. The tornado continued moving east snapping or uprooting trees along Keller Drive and then hit Murray County High School at Green Road and Old Dalton Ellijay Road. The tornado caused significant damage to the baseball fields blowing down a fence and a cinderblock wall and throwing a portion of the bleachers onto the field. The press box also sustained damage. The tornado continued east along West Chestnut Street uprooting and snapping trees, blowing a fence down and collapsing a carport onto a car and a house before dissipating as it reached Highway 411, or North 3rd Avenue. [03/01/17: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-1, Murray, 2017:030].
The Murray County 911 Center reported that thunderstorm downburst winds blew down at least six trees southwest of Chatsworth near the intersection of Georgia Highway 225 and New Hope Church Road. In addition, a portion of the roof of a home was ripped off. Several large tree limbs were also down, falling on and causing damage to some vehicles.
The Murray County Emergency Manager and the Murray County 911 Center reported trees blown down on Tibbs Bridge Road, Greeson Bend Road and Smyrna Church Road.
A spotter for the National Weather Service in Peachtree City reported that several large, six to ten inch diameter trees, were blown down along U.S. Highway 76 and Georgia Highway 225 north and west of Spring Place near the Whitfield county line.
A trained spotter and cooperative observer for the National Weather Service reported that two large 8-10 inch diameter trees were blown down on Tibbs Road. The Murray County 911 center also reported that a couple of trees and power lines were blown down.
The public reported that dime to quarter sized hail fell for 5 minutes at the BP gas station in Chatsworth. Several cars had to pull in under the awning to avoid the hail.
The Dalton Citizen reported that heavy rain, associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill, forced the closing of Patricia Avenue for the third time in six weeks.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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