Roods Landing Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Roods Landing Site or Roods Creek Mounds (9SW1) is an archaeological site located south of Omaha, Stewart County, Georgia, United States at the confluence of Rood Creek and the Chattahoochee River. It is a Middle Woodland / Mississippian period Pre-Columbian complex of earthen mounds.”
Wikipedia article Roods Landing site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Stewart County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. S of Omaha at confluence of Rood Creek and the Chattahoochee River, Omaha, 31821
When was it listed? August 1975
Category. site
Census division. Lumpkin
National Register reference number. 75000609 - 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Roods Landing Site between 1992 and 2019, burning about 239 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-STEWART-005
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1999	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2011	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	39 HWY 165, AL
20 July 2000	Natural	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-QUITMAN-001

Every fire recorded in Stewart 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 Roods Landing Site: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium. 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
	Chattahoochee River Prospect	Titanium, Zirconium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Stewart County

Storms near this property

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Omaha, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
February 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Omaha	$20,000	An aerial survey conducted by the National Weather Service and the Georgia State Patrol determined that a tornado, which moved out of Russell county Alabama, continued into far northwestern Stewart county. While the tornado was rated an EF2 in Russell county Alabama, it weakened to an EF0 tornado as it crossed into far northwest Stewart county just northwest of Omaha. It then paralleled the Chattahoochee River and the Alabama border for over nine miles before finally crossing into Chattahoochee county. The path width was estimated to be 50 yards wide. Damage was minimal and confined mainly to downed trees and a few power lines. One county vehicle was damaged near Omaha when a tree fell on it. Much of the track of the tornado remained within swamp land along the Chattahoochee River.
April 1998	Tornado (F0)	Omaha	$10,000	A tornado was reported near Omaha with numerous downed trees.
January 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Omaha	$3,000	The Stewart county 911 center reported that three to four trees were blown down on power lines which resulted in some power outages in the area.
April 1998	Hail	Omaha	$3,000	Hail the size of quarters was reported in Omaha, lasting several minutes.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Omaha	$2,000	The Stewart County 911 Center reported a few trees blown down on Highway 39 about a mile southwest of Omaha.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Omaha	$2,000	The Sumter Electric Management Cooperative (EMC) reported that several trees and tree limbs were down across the county. This brought some power lines down as well.
April 1999	Hail	Omaha	$2,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Omaha	$1,000	Emergency manager reported a tree down along Hwy 39 near Wall Rd.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Omaha	$1,000	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Omaha	-	The public observed quarter-sized hail across northern Stewart county between Omaha and Louvale. WSR-88D radar data suggests that quarter-sized hail likely fell across much of northern Stewart county, eastward toward Brooklyn.
December 2005	Hail	Omaha	-	The Stewart County Emergency Management Director and the public reported a swath of quarter to golf ball-sized hail from Omaha to Louvale.
June 2001	Hail	Omaha	-	The public reported dime size hail. Winds were estimated at 60 mph as well.

Every storm recorded in Stewart 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 75000609 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stewart County	All 26 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.