Sanders Hill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Sanders Hill, also known as Overhome, near Montrose in Laurens County, Georgia, is a house built in 1903, constructed of Georgia heart pine, as a copy of a house from early in the prior century which was destroyed c.1900. It is located about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Montrose off I-16/GA 404, about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west of Dudley.”
Wikipedia article Sanders Hill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Laurens County · listed in 1975 · 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. S of Montrose off I-16/GA 404, Montrose, 31065
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. building
Census division. Dudley
National Register reference number. 75000600 - 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

355 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 355 fires within 5 miles of Sanders Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,402 acres in total. 19 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	209
Equipment and vehicle use	63
Arson/incendiarism	32
Natural	19
Smoking	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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 2019	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BLECKLEY003
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BLECKLEY-011
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Laurens County

Storms near this property

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montrose, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$100,000	The Laurens County 911 Center reported that several trees were down across the far northern part of the county. Amateur radio operators reported that the roof was torn off a barn and a grain elevator was flipped over between Dublin and the Wilkinson/Johnson county line as well.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$50,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia and additional information received from the Laurens County Emergency Management Director concluded that extensive straight-line wind damage affected nearly all of Laurens county in addition to three separate tornadoes that tracked across the county, two in the north and one in the southeast part of the county. Numerous trees and power lines were downed throughout the county, but especially the northern sections.
October 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$7,000	The Laurens County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the county from around Montrose to near Cedar Grove.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$5,000	The Laurens County 911 Center reported that up to a dozen trees and five power lines were down across the western part of the county from Montrose, to Dudley, and Dexter. Three trees were down on the eastbound side of Interstate-16 near mile marker 42.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$5,000	The Laurens County 911 Center reported that at least two dozen trees had been blown down across the county.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$5,000	The Laurens County 911 Center reported that over a dozen trees and several power lines were down throughout the county.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$3,000	The Laurens County Emergency Management Director reported that up to 10 trees were down across the county. Most of the trees were down across the southern half of the county from Dexter to Rentz. A few trees were also down in East Dublin.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$3,000	The Laurens County 911 Center reported that at least 10 trees were down, scattered about the county.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$3,000	The Laurens county 911 center reported that some trees were blown down in Montrose and Rentz.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$500	The Laurens County 911 Center reported that trees were blown down near Montrose.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$500	The public reported that the skirting or underpinning was blown out from under a mobile home.
April 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Montrose	-	Continuation from Bleckley County -- The tornado path closely followed I-16 Southeastward where trees were snapped or uprooted often on one side of interstate or the other. Radar data confirms the path and storm direction was to the ESE aligning with damage found on the ground along the interstate. The tornado continued for over 3 miles along the interstate snapping or uprooting trees across GA Hwy 112, Eason Hill Church Rd in Laurens County before weakening and lifting as it approached GA HWY 278 southwest of the town of Montrose. Most of the damage was confined to the area between mile markers 32 to 35 along I-16. [4/6/22: Tornado #2, County #3/3, EF-0, Twiggs/Bleckley/Laurens, 2022:022].
September 2021	Flash Flood	Montrose	-	The Emergency Manager reported water over the roadway on I-16 near the Bleckley/Laurens county line. Radar estimates indicate that between 2 and 3 inches of rain had fallen over the area in a short period of time, resulting in the flash flooding.
April 2015	Hail	Montrose	-	The Fire Department in Montrose reported quarter size hail.
June 2007	Hail	Montrose	-	The public reported penny-sized hail in the Montrose area.
June 2001	Hail	Montrose	-	The public reported dime size hail.
June 1997	Hail	Montrose	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laurens 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000600 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Laurens County	All 8 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.