Built in 1840. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“The Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge carries Covered Bridge Road across Red Oak Creek north of Woodbury, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.”
Wikipedia article Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Meriwether County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure · built in 1840.
National Register reference number.73000632- 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
145 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 744 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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
99
Arson/incendiarism
17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
3
Natural
3
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge: 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, 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
Woodbury, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash 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.
The Meriwether County Emergency Management Director and the county 911 center reported that at least eight trees were down in Woodbury and just east of Woodbury as a result of a thunderstorm downburst.
The Emergency Manager reported the closure of Country Club Road due to flooding of a nearby pond. In addition to the 1.5 inches of rain that fell the previous day, radar estimates indicate that an additional 6 to 8 inches fell on March 26, resulting in the flash flooding.
The Meriwether County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were down in the southeast part of the county, southwest of Woodbury in the vicinity of Renolds Road and Georgia Highway 85. One tree was down blocking a road.
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.
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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