Built in 1864. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“Johnston's River Line, also called Johnston's Line, the Chattahoochee River Line or simply The River Line, is a historic American Civil War defensive line located in the communities of Mableton, Smyrna, and Vinings, Georgia that was used by the Confederate Army under General Joseph E. Johnston during the Atlanta campaign in early July 1864.”
Wikipedia article Johnston's River Line, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Cobb County · listed in 1973 · category: Site · built in 1864.
National Register reference number.73000618- 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
34 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Johnston's Line
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 120 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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
12
Arson/incendiarism
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Natural
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Smoking
1
Recreation and ceremony
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Johnston's Line: 7 producers, 2 past producers.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Mableton, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 16 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning.
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.
Sight survey by an NWS employee showed a downburst or straightline winds caused damage in southern Cobb county. Damage was first noted on Allen Road where new homes under construction were damaged as the wind collapsed the framing. Roofs were pretty much intact but were lying on the ground. About 4 other homes were heavily damaged. Another house was moved a foot or 2 off its foundation but was still intact. Numerous trees were snapped off or uprooted along a path to the northeast from Lakeshore Drive to near Bankhead highway, but they were all laying in the same direction. Most damage to homes was due to falling trees.
WSB Television of Atlanta and the public reported that up to 50 trees and dozens of power lines were down across the county, especially the eastern portion. Damage was quite significant in the Smyrna area, where several roads were blocked form downed trees, including major roads such as South Cobb Drive and Cumberland Parkway. A 19-year male resident of Mableton was killed following the storms when a large tree fell on him while trying to clean up another tree that had fallen during the storms.
The Cobb County 911 Center reported that several trees, at least six, were down across the east central part of the county near Smyrna and Marietta. Power outages were also noted in the Powder Springs area in the southwest part of the county.
An amateur radio operator relayed a report of quarter-sized hail just south of Smyrna. Several reports of penny to quarter-sized hail were received from the public across eastern Cobb county near Marietta. The public reported that hail, some as large as quarters, fell east of Marietta near the Fulton county line for up to 10 minutes. The hail completely covered the ground at several locations.
Several reports of hail, ranging in size from pennies to quarters, were received from the southeast and east central parts of Cobb county from just northwest of Mableton to just east of Smyrna. Quarter-sized hail was observed near Mableton and Smyrna, with penny-sized hail just east of Smyrna.
The public observed quarter to 1.50 inch diameter-sized hail in the far southeast corner of the county from just north and west of Mableton to around Six Flags. This thunderstorm was the same thunderstorm that earlier produced hail in southwest Cobb county near Powder Springs.
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.
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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