Built in 1721. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
From the record
“Fort King George State Historic Site is a fort located in the U.S. state of Georgia in McIntosh County, adjacent to Darien. The fort was built in 1721 along what is now known as the Darien River and served as the southernmost outpost of the British Empire in the Americas until 1727.”
Wikipedia article Fort King George, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for McIntosh County · listed in 1971 · category: Site · built in 1721.
National Register reference number.71001101- 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
200 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Fort King George
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8,965 acres in total. 6 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
Arson/incendiarism
77
Debris and open burning
68
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Misuse of fire by a minor
10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Natural
6
Smoking
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Fort King George: 1 prospect, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Darien, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 5 flash flood, 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.
Local broadcast media reported flash flooding from heavy rainfall associated with Hurricane Irma. Pictures showed several structures submerged due to flood waters on Highway 17 south of Darien. Water was nearly up to the windows on one structure.
Law Enforcement reported a tree down at exit 49 off of Interstate 95 in Darien, Georgia. Another tree was reported down at the intersection of Stedwell Road and Franklin Street.
McIntosh County dispatch reported two trees down around Darien. One tree was down on Pine Street at Black Road. The other tree was down on a power line and two vehicles in the 900 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
The last of several episodes of heavy rainfall associated with Tropical Storm Tammy and its remnants produced numerous flooded roads across the county. Five homes were damaged by the flood waters, 15-20 roads washed out, and 2 pond dams burst.
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
4 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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