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Photograph of Liberty Hill
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Liberty Hill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Liberty Hill in La Grange, Georgia, about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) west of the Chattahoochee River in Troup County, is a Greek Revival style plantation house built in the 1830s or 1840s. The original cotton plantation owner, John T.”

Wikipedia article Liberty Hill (La Grange, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Troup 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. NW of La Grange on Liberty Hill Rd., LaGrange, 30240
  • When was it listed? February 1975
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Abbottsford
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 75000612 - 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Hill between 1992 and 2016, burning about 994 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-HEARD-003
20 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance4.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1996Debris and open burning6.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2007Natural2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 1993Natural1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Troup 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
Strickland House3.3 miles1976
Ferrell-Holder House6.7 miles1979
Vernon Road Historic District6.7 miles1984
College Home/Smith Hall6.9 miles1982
Bellevue6.9 miles1972
Broad Street Historic District7.0 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000612 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Troup CountyAll 35 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.