Jarrell Plantation

Built in 1847. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site is a former cotton plantation and state historic site in Juliette, Georgia, United States. Founded as a forced-labor farm worked by John Jarrell and the African American people he enslaved, the site stands today as one of the best-preserved examples of a "middle class" Southern plantation.”
Wikipedia article Jarrell Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Jones County · listed in 1973 · category: District · built in 1847.

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 12 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6 mi. E of East Juliette off Dames Ferry Rd., East Juliette, 31046
When was it listed? May 1973
Category. district
Census division. Round Oak
When was it built? 1847
National Register reference number. 73000624 - 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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Jarrell Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,385 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 23 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	131
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Arson/incendiarism	23
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Natural	12
Smoking	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
3 September 1997	Natural	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1993	Natural	6.0 acres	Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge	COMP34WF
11 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MONROE004
6 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge	C-20 GA-POWER
6 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jones 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 Jarrell Plantation: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Macon Plant #21 & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jones County

Storms near this property

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Juliette, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	East Juliette	$100,000	The Jones County Sheriff's Office reported that several trees and power lines were down across the county. Five homes in the county sustained minor to moderate damage from downed trees. Two roads were closed from downed trees and power lines.
December 2009	Tornado (EF0)	East Juliette	$15,000	A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that an EF0 tornado touched down in the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge, approximately 2.5 miles east-southeast of East Juliette or 3.0 miles east of Juliette in northwest Jones county and then traveled northeast a little less than two miles to a point near 3.5 miles east of East Juliette. Maximum wind gusts were estimated to be 80 mph with the tornado path width estimated to be 100 yards. The tornado traveled through a largely unpopulated, forested area. Thus, damage was confined to from 50 to 100 mature pine trees that were snapped in half, mostly within the Piedmont Wildlife Refuge. Some of the damaged trees were near a cemetery.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	East Juliette	$5,000	The Jones County 911 Center reported that at least a dozen trees were down across the county. The strongest winds tracked from the northwest to the south central part of the county and near the Bibb and Monroe county lines.
April 2009	Flood	East Juliette	$5,000	The Jones County Emergency Management Director reported that eight dirt roads in the county were flooded, rendered impassable, and closed. Minor flooding of fields and woodlands adjacent to creeks and streams was also observed. Parts of the county experienced up to six inches of rain during a 3-day period.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	East Juliette	$2,000	The Jones County 911 Center reported that eight trees were blown down in the western part of the county.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	East Juliette	$1,500	The Jones County 911 Center reported six to eight trees down across northwest portions of the county.

Every storm recorded in Jones 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Herman and Allene Shaver House	6.9 miles	2013
	Cabiness-Hunt House	8.0 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000624 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jones County	All 9 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.