Indian Springs Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Indian Springs Hotel Museum is located in the former Indian Springs Hotel, a historic hotel in Georgia established in 1825. The Treaty of 1825 was signed at the hotel; the Creek Indians ceded much of Georgia and Alabama to the United States in the treaty.”
Wikipedia article Indian Springs Hotel Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Butts County · listed in 1973 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. GA 42, Indian Springs, 30216
When was it listed? May 1973
Category. building
Census division. Flovilla
National Register reference number. 73000612 - 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

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Indian Springs Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 967 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 14 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	143
Railroad operations and maintenance	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Smoking	19
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	8

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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MONROE-013
2 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	21 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Butts County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Indian Springs Hotel: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Westbrooks Prospect	Mica, Feldspar	Prospect

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

3 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
Idlewilde	0.2 miles	1999
Butts County Courthouse	4.4 miles	1980
J. R. Carmichael House	4.5 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000612 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butts County	All 4 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.