Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“The Sparta Historic District in Sparta, Georgia, is a 50 acres (20 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The Rossiter-Little House is a contributing property.”
Wikipedia article Sparta Historic District (Sparta, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Hancock County · listed in 1974 · category: District.
National Register reference number.74000686- 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
201 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Sparta Historic District
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 884 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 16 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
110
Equipment and vehicle use
22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
18
Arson/incendiarism
16
Natural
14
Misuse of fire by a minor
11
Smoking
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
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 National Weather Service names
Sparta, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado.
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.
A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that a brief EF1 tornado touched down approximately two miles northwest of Sparta and traveled only 1.5 miles before lifting. This was the first of three tornadoes to touch down in Hancock county between 1019 pm EDT and 1028 pm EDT, each near Sparta. This tornado was determined to have a maximum path width of 100 feet with maximum winds estimated at 80 mph. This first tornado tracked through a quite rural area. However, one mobile home suffered moderate damage to its roof, siding, and windows.
The Sparta Ishmaelite newspaper reported that thunderstorm winds ripped off a newly installed metal roof at the Sparta High School. This portion of the building housed the Board of Education's central office. The wind also damaged much of the wooden frame constructed above the old roof which was designed to support the new roof. Many trees and power lines were also downed in the Sparta area causing many of the city's residents to be without power for three hours.
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
4 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.
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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