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Photograph of Warm Springs Historic District
Photograph by Kåre Thor Olsen, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Roosevelt's Little White House, Pools

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Warm Springs Historic District is a historic district in Warm Springs, Georgia, United States. It includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Little White House and the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, where Roosevelt indulged in its warm springs.”

Wikipedia article Warm Springs Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Meriwether County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 50 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. S of GA 194 and W of GA 85W, Warm Springs, 31830
  • When was it listed? July 1974
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Warm Springs
  • National Register reference number. 74000694 - 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Roosevelt's Little White House, Pools between 1992 and 2020, burning about 645 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 20 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 burning113
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural7
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MERIWETHER004
9 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-HARRIS-001
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-005
7 September 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MERIWETHER-006
10 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MERIWETHER-005

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Roosevelt's Little White House, Pools: 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Warm Springs BauxiteKaolinPast Producer1910, 1915
ProspectAluminumProspect
Red Bauxite OutcropAluminumOccurrence
Republic MineAluminumPast Producer
Smith Prospect No. 1AluminumProspect
Smith Prospect No. 2AluminumProspect
Turner ProspectAluminumProspect

Every working recorded in Meriwether County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warm Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1993HailWarm Springs$500,000Several cars and residential roofing were damaged in the city of Warm Springs from quarter-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Meriwether County

Newspapers printed here

5,542 digitised pages

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,102 issues, 5,542 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Warm Springs Mirror1931 to 1954
The Warm Springs Advertiser1930 to 1931

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Eleanor Roosevelt School0.6 miles2010
Benjamin F. Bulloch House0.8 miles1994
Bulloch Family House0.9 miles2002
Oakland2.7 miles1982
Manchester Community Building5.2 miles2002
Mark Hall5.6 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000694 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Meriwether CountyAll 24 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.