Old Gaissert Homeplace

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Old Gaissert Homeplace, also known as Orr-Williamson-Gaissert Homeplace, Williamson Place, or Mary Brook Farm, is a historic building in Williamson, Georgia. It was originally built in 1827 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1973.”
Wikipedia article Old Gaissert Homeplace, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Spalding 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. NE of Williamson on GA 362, Williamson, 30292
When was it listed? June 1973
Category. building
Census division. Rover
National Register reference number. 73002145 - 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

343 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 343 fires within 5 miles of Old Gaissert Homeplace between 1992 and 2019, burning about 700 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 52 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	211
Arson/incendiarism	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	3

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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PIKE-003
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SPALDING003
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-SPALDING-007
27 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Spalding County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Old Gaissert Homeplace: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Manganese, Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Beryl Deposit	Gemstone	Occurrence
Walker Property	Iron, Manganese	Prospect
Griffin Granite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Griffin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Spalding 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
Mills House and Smokehouse	2.2 miles	1980
Bailey-Tebault House	4.1 miles	1973
Milner-Walker House	4.4 miles	2019
Marian Apartments	4.4 miles	2007
Hill-Kurtz House	4.4 miles	1973
Hunt House	4.5 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73002145 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spalding County	All 16 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.