Shivers-Simpson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Shivers-Simpson House, also known as Rock Mill, on the west bank of the Ogeechee River in Hancock County, Georgia, near Jewell, Georgia, was built around 1820. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.”
Wikipedia article Shivers-Simpson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Hancock County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Jewell on Mayfield Rd., Jewell, 31045
When was it listed? June 1970
Category. building
Census division. Mayfield
National Register reference number. 70000207 - 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Shivers-Simpson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,858 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 7 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	113
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Natural	17
Smoking	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HANCOCK-005
21 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WARREN-003
13 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WARREN006
10 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Natural	120 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HANCOCK-008

Every fire recorded in Hancock 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
	Jewell Historic District	1.1 miles	1979
	Cheely-Coleman House	4.4 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000207 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hancock County	All 11 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.