Fort Barrington

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Fort Barrington, briefly renamed Fort Howe after its capture, was a mid-18th-century frontier fort. It was used and garrisoned for several conflicts, including between the British, Spanish, and Native Americans; during the American Revolution; and during the American Civil War.”
Wikipedia article Fort Barrington, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for McIntosh County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

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 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. NW of Cox, Cox, 31331
When was it listed? September 1972
Category. site
Census division. Townsend
National Register reference number. 72001447 - 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Fort Barrington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,070 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 140 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	140
Debris and open burning	44
Natural	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-MCINTOSH-001
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-005

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cox, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cox	-	The McIntosh County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Heron Bridge Road.
March 2012	Hail	Cox	-	Trained Spotter reported quarter-sized hail 3 miles east southeast of Cox.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cox	-	Several trees and large limbs were down.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cox	-	Numerous trees down countywide
May 2000	Hail	Cox	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McIntosh 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 72001447 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McIntosh County	All 10 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.
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.