Howard's Covered Bridge

Built in 1905. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Howard's Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge outside of Smithonia in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 1, 1975.”
Wikipedia article Howard's Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Oglethorpe County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1905.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3 mi. SE of Smithsonia on SR S2164 over Big Clouds Creek, Smithsonia, 30629
When was it listed? July 1975
Category. structure
Census division. Crawford
When was it built? 1905
National Register reference number. 75000604 - 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Howard's Covered Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 490 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 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	94
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019OGLETHORPE003
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-OGLETHORPE-008
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020OGLETHORPE006
5 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-OGLETHORPE-004

Every fire recorded in Oglethorpe 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Watson Mill Covered Bridge and Mill Historic District	4.4 miles	1991
J. L. Bridges Home Place	7.2 miles	1978
Crawford Depot	7.3 miles	1977
Langston-Daniel House	7.9 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000604 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oglethorpe County	All 12 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.