Cedar Lane Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 Madison off GA 83, Madison, 30650
When was it listed? February 1971
Category. building
Census division. Madison
National Register reference number. 71000281 - 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Lane Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 524 acres in total. 10 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	62
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	10
Smoking	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1997	Smoking	9.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-MORGAN-003
18 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MORGAN-004
10 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1998	Natural	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Lane Farm: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Beryllium. 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
Alliston Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Carter Prospect	Beryllium	Prospect
Parker Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this property

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madison, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2010: 16 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 6 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	1 hurt, $50,000	A driver of an automobile was injured from a fallen tree toppled by thunderstorm winds. Several large trees and and power lines were downed in the city of Madison by thunderstorm winds.
March 2008	Hail	Madison	$400,000	The public reported golf ball to baseball-sized hail in southeast Morgan county as yet another severe thunderstorm moved through the county.
August 2002	Lightning	Madison	$308,000	The Madisonian Newspaper reported that lightning struck and set on fire a historic home in town on Washington Street. Many of its contents were antiques and irreplaceable. The structure and its contents were destroyed. The county's 911 communication system was also struck and knocked out of service by lightning.
July 2002	Lightning	Madison	$250,000	The Madisonian newspaper of Madison reported that lightning struck a large two-story home in the Cedar Lakes subdivision. The lightning struck the bonus room above the garage, but fire, smoke and water left the house virtually destroyed.
July 2003	Tornado (F1)	Madison	$184,000	A storm damage survey conducted by an employee of the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia and reports from the Emergency Management Director, storm spotters, and the public confirmed that an F1 tornado touched down about 3 miles north-northeast of Pennington near Spears Road and just west of Georgia Highway 83, also known as Monticello Road. The tornado continued on a sporadic path for approximately 3 miles, terminating near Interstate-20, about four miles southwest of Madison. The tornado was associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill and occurred just east of the center of the circulation associated with the remnants of the tropical storm. The Morgan county Emergency Management Director reported that extensive damage occurred to a dairy farm on Spears Road. Two dairy sheds were severely damaged, a 50 by 50 foot hay barn was destroyed, a 30 by 60 foot feed barn and a John Deere Tractor were significantly damaged, a two-car carport was destroyed as well as a Chevrolet Tahoe that was parked inside, and three other approximately 8 by 12 foot metal storage buildings were severely damaged or destroyed. One dairy cow was also killed by a falling tree. Seven other homes along Spears Road, Monticello Highway, and Brownwood Road sustained minor to moderate damage during the incident, mostly roof damage. One of the homes had half of its roof shingles blown off. One home sustained damage to several windows, and another residence had both a utility trailer and a car damaged by fallen trees. At an eighth location, a metal outbuilding sustained damage. The damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service found that hundreds of trees were blown down along the path of the tornado in the heavily forested area west of Georgia Highway 83 and southwest of Madison.
July 2007	Lightning	Madison	$150,000	The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported that two homes were struck by lightning and set on fire.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$10,000	The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported that many trees and power lines were blown down throughout the city.
July 2006	Lightning	Madison	$5,000	The Madisonian of Morgan reported that lightning struck and set a barn on fire on Monticello Highway. The barn was completely destroyed from the subsequent fire.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	The Madisonian newspaper reported that a number of trees and several power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	A storm survey conducted by an employee of the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia determined that approximately 30 or more isolated trees were blown down by straight line winds on Monticello Road, Clack Road, and Spears Road. The survey determined these downed trees to be separate from the F1 tornado damage that occurred later.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	The Morgan county Emergency Management Director reported several trees and some power lines were blown down in, just west, and just south of the city. Power was briefly lost at the 911 communications center.
September 2002	Flood	Madison	$5,000	The Madisonian Newspaper of Madison reported that over three inches of rain fell in approximately 30 minutes resulting in the flooding of downtown streets. A motorist was stranded in his vehicle near the intersection of Main and Park Street as water rose up to the level of the windows. The motorist was safely removed from the flood waters, however the vehicle suffered extensive water damage.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	Several large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	Several large trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$3,000	The Morgan County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were blown down in the western part of the county west of Madison and southeast of Centennial.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$3,000	The Georgia Emergency Management Agency relayed a report from Morgan county of trees and power lines down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$2,000	The Morgan County 911 Center reported that six to seven trees were down across the county, but mostly in the Buckhead community. Trees were down near the intersection of Commerce Street and U.S. Highway 278.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$1,000	The Morgan county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$1,000	Several trees were knocked down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down and damaged an outbuilding. Quarter size hail was also reported.
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$1,000	no account filed
May 2008	Lightning	Madison	$500	The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning started a grass fire near Madison. The exact location was not provided.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$500	The Madisonian newspaper of Madison reported that thunderstorm winds blew down a large section of the trusses of a Senior Citizens Center that was under construction.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$500	The Morgan county Emergency Management Director reported that two trees were blown down.
May 2008	Hail	Madison	-	The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail.
April 2007	Hail	Madison	-	A Morgan county sheriff's deputy observed penny-sized hail in the area of Interstate-20 and U.S. Highway 129 or Eatonton Road. However, most of the hail observed in the area was pea-sized.
March 2005	Hail	Madison	-	The public reported penny-sized hail at a gas service station on Monticello Road at Interstate-20.
August 2005	Funnel Cloud	Madison	-	The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported observing a funnel cloud which tracked above Georgia Highway 83 from just south of Madison to Bostwick. The funnel cloud was also observed by the Rutledge Fire and Rescue Department. There were various reports that the funnel cloud touched down, especially in the Bostwick area, but none of these reports were confirmed. The location of the funnel cloud was consistent with a strong circulation indicated on National Weather Service Doppler radar.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Madison	-	The Morgan county 911 center reported that several roadways in town were flooded with water flowing over the roads.
February 2003	Hail	Madison	-	The Morgan county 911 center reported dime size hail.
November 2002	Hail	Madison	-	The Morgan county Emergency Management Director reported dime size hail.
July 2002	Hail	Madison	-	The Morgan county 911 center reported dime size hail.
October 2002	Lightning	Madison	-	The Morgan county Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a new home that was under construction west of Madison. Damage was minor and insignificant.
August 1999	Hail	Madison	-	A spotter reported golf ball size hail.
August 1999	Hail	Madison	-	A spotter reported golf ball size hail from 6:25 pm to 6:40 pm EDT.
April 1998	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
James A. Nolan House	3.7 miles	2019
Hard Labor Creek State Park	4.6 miles	2013
Madison Historic District (Boundary Increase)	4.9 miles	1990
Apalachee School	5.0 miles	2000
Madison Historic District	5.1 miles	1974
Nathan Bennett House	5.2 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000281 in Record Group 79.
Morgan 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.
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.