BlockBefore
Photograph of Oxford Historic District
Photograph by Edward Lloyd Thomas, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Oxford Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Oxford Historic District in Oxford, Georgia is a 146-acre (59 ha) historic district that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1975.”

Wikipedia article Oxford Historic District (Oxford, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. College and residential district centered around Wesley St., Oxford, 30054
  • When was it listed? June 1975
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Covington-Porterdale
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 75000603 - 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

297 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Oxford Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 419 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 35 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 burning114
Equipment and vehicle use41
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Smoking18
Natural16
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Recreation and ceremony12

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
5 September 2002Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-NEWTON-007
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-NEWTON-003
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-NEWTON-003
24 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oxford Historic District: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Newton County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oxford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxford, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOxford$5,000The Newton county 911 center reported that several trees and power lines were down across the north part of Covington.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindOxford$3,000no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindOxford$2,000The Newton County Sheriff's office reported that several trees were blown down across the northern portion of the county.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindOxford$2,000The public reported numerous trees knocked down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOxford$1,500The Newton County Emergency Manager reported that several trees were blown down north of Covington in the Oxford area.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindOxford$200The public reported trees down.
March 2008HailOxford-The public reported penny-sized hail in the Covington area.
July 1999HailOxford-The public reported quarter size hail.
May 1998HailOxford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Orna Villa0.2 miles1973
North Covington Historic District1.3 miles2000
Covington Mills and Mill Village Historic District1.9 miles2000
Newton County Courthouse2.1 miles1980
Floyd Street Historic District2.2 miles1974
Covington Historic District2.4 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000603 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton CountyAll 13 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.