Orna Villa

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Orna Villa, also known as the Alexander Means House and the Means/Tanner House, is a historic Greek Revival house located on Emory Street in Oxford, Georgia. Built in 1825, it is the oldest house in Oxford.”
Wikipedia article Orna Villa, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Newton 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1008 N. Emory St., Oxford, 30054
When was it listed? January 1973
Category. building
Census division. Covington-Porterdale
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 73000636 - 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

279 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Orna Villa between 1992 and 2019, burning about 374 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 32 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	109
Equipment and vehicle use	38
Arson/incendiarism	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Smoking	18
Natural	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Recreation and ceremony	10

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 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-NEWTON-007
30 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-NEWTON-003
3 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-NEWTON-003
24 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Orna Villa: 2 producers. 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
	Newton County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Oxford Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxford, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	$5,000	The Newton county 911 center reported that several trees and power lines were down across the north part of Covington.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	$3,000	no account filed
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	$2,000	The Newton County Sheriff's office reported that several trees were blown down across the northern portion of the county.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	$2,000	The public reported numerous trees knocked down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	$1,500	The Newton County Emergency Manager reported that several trees were blown down north of Covington in the Oxford area.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Oxford	$200	The public reported trees down.
March 2008	Hail	Oxford	-	The public reported penny-sized hail in the Covington area.
July 1999	Hail	Oxford	-	The public reported quarter size hail.
May 1998	Hail	Oxford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Oxford Historic District	0.2 miles	1975
North Covington Historic District	1.2 miles	2000
Covington Mills and Mill Village Historic District	1.6 miles	2000
Newton County Courthouse	1.9 miles	1980
Floyd Street Historic District	2.0 miles	1974
Covington Historic District	2.1 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000636 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 13 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.