Montpelier Female Institute

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. W of Macon, Macon, 31220
When was it listed? October 1975
Category. building
Census division. Culloden-Bolingbroke
National Register reference number. 75000602 - 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Montpelier Female Institute between 1992 and 2020, burning about 590 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 18 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	113
Arson/incendiarism	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
4 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MONROE-011
31 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2007	Natural	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1996	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2012	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-MONROE-005
15 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Montpelier Female Institute: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Forsyth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Monroe 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Great Hill Place	6.5 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000602 in Record Group 79.
Monroe County	All 9 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.