Great Hill Place

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Great Hill Place, also known as Colaparchee and Cotton Place, near Bolingbroke, Georgia, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The listing included ten contributing buildings and two contributing structures on 350 acres (1.4 km2).”
Wikipedia article Great Hill Place, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Monroe 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

Address. W of Bolingbroke off GA 41, Bolingbroke, 31220
When was it listed? July 1973
Category. building
Census division. Culloden-Bolingbroke
National Register reference number. 73000633 - 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

312 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 312 fires within 5 miles of Great Hill Place between 1992 and 2019, burning about 770 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 29 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	208
Arson/incendiarism	29
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Smoking	11
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	7

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
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MONROE-004
20 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MONROE-003

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bolingbroke, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2007	Lightning	Bolingbroke	$250,000	The Forsyth County Emergency Management Director reported that two homes were struck and set on fire by lightning. One of the homes sustained substantial damage. Damage to the other home was less severe, but still significant. Lightning also struck a transformer in the area and left about 5000 residents in the area without power for several hours.
November 2002	Tornado (F0)	Bolingbroke	$100,000	The National Weather Service disaster survey team continued its survey into extreme southern Monroe county and classified the damage here as F0 tornado damage as well. The same tornado that originated in extreme northern Bibb county moved east-northeast into extreme southern Monroe county, continuing to do damage in the Sleepy Creek and Cross Creek Subdivisions. The damage was confined mainly to numerous downed pine trees, a few on homes, and a few incidents of shingles blown off roofs. At least eight homes and four vehicles were damaged by downed trees. One four foot diameter tree was blown right through the bedroom of one home and at least two dozen trees were tossed about like twiggs in another part of the subdivision. Two roads were blocked by downed trees as well.
January 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Bolingbroke	$45,000	A National Weather Service survey found that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 95 MPH and a maximum path width of 200 yards touched down in a wooded area between Rumble Road, Jenkins Road and Dames Ferry Road near the confluence of Deer Creek and Little Deer Creek. The tornado moved northeast snapping and uprooting multiples trees. The tornado crossed Dames Ferry Road southwest of the Lake Juliette dam, flipping a mobile home on its side before ending just west of Highway 23/87. [1/1/21: Tornado #4, County #1/1, EF-1, Monroe, 2021:004].
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$10,000	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that dozens of trees were down in the Bolingbroke area. A number of power lines were also down and power was out throughout the area. The Emergency Management Director indicated that it was possible that a tornado had touched down in the area. Although National Weather Service damage surveys conducted in the region could not confirm a tornado touchdown, National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a definite mesocyclone circulation in the area at the time of the damage reports. Several trees and power lines were down on Zebulon Road and Estes Road in Bolingbroke. A few trees and power lines were also down in the Juliette area of northeast Monroe county along the Jones county line.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$3,000	The Forsyth County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees and some power lines were blown down in the Bolingbroke area.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$2,000	Em reports two trees down in bolingbroke along hwy 75 and dixie hwy.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$1,000	Tree downed in 200 block of franklin rd.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$1,000	The Monroe County 911 Center reported that four trees were blown down in the far southern portion of the county.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$1,000	Monroe county 911 reported power lines were blown down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down.
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$1,000	no account filed
March 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$500	Amateur radio operators reported a large tree blown down on Pea Ridge Road near I-475.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	$500	A few trees were downed along I-75 by thunderstorm winds.
June 2019	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	The Monroe County Emergency Manager reported quarter size hail in Bolingbroke.
January 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolingbroke	-	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that several large trees were down in the Bolingbroke area.
December 2005	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that nickel-sized hail covered the ground on I-75 in the Bolingbroke area. The interstate became a parking lot as three accidents evolved during the hail storm. There were no injuries.
December 2005	Funnel Cloud	Bolingbroke	-	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that a funnel cloud had been observed 1/2 mile south of Bolingbroke on I-475.
July 2002	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	The public reported that dime to nickel size hail covered the ground.
July 2002	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	The public and an amateur radio operator reported dime to quarter size hail.
January 1999	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	The public reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 1997	Hail	Bolingbroke	-	Dime sized hail covered the ground near the Monroe/ Bibb county line.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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

1 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
	Montpelier Female Institute	6.5 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000633 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe 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.
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.