Andersonville National Historic Site

Built in 1970. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Andersonville Prison, located near Andersonville, Georgia, was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War. Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County, adjacent to the east side of the town of Andersonville.”
Wikipedia article Andersonville Prison, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Macon County · listed in 1970 · category: District · built in 1970.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 20 objectss, 5 buildingss, 2 sitess, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 mi. E of Andersonville on GA 49, Andersonville, 31711
When was it listed? October 1970
Category. district
Census division. Oglethorpe
When was it built? 1970
National Register reference number. 70000070 - 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Andersonville National Historic Site between 1992 and 2019, burning about 851 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 13 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	108
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Natural	15
Arson/incendiarism	13
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-SUMTER-002
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-SUMTER-003
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Smoking	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SCHLEY003
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	3.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Andersonville National Historic Site: 20 past producers, 11 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum, Kaolin, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hatton Mine	Aluminum, Ball Clay	Past Producer
Mullite Company of America	Kaolin, Aluminum	Occurrence	Weathering Residual
Mullite North Pit Lot 278	Clay, Aluminum	Past Producer
Wilburn Pit No 1	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Sumter County Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Webb Pit No. M3	Clay	Past Producer
Andersonville Bauxite District	Aluminum, Kaolin	Past Producer	SEDIMENTARY
Holloway Property	Aluminum, Kaolin	Prospect
Mulcoa Plant No 1	Aluminum, Kaolin	Past Producer
Clark Property	Kaolin, Aluminum	Prospect

Every working recorded in Macon 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 70000070 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macon County	All 17 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.