Matthews House

Built in 1855 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Matthews House near Danburg, Georgia, located northeast on Georgia State Route 79, was built in 1855. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Matthews House (Danburg, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1855, Gothic Revival.

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

The listing

Address. NE of Danburg on GA 79, Danburg, 30668
When was it listed? October 1976
Category. building
Census division. Lincolnton
When was it built? 1855
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 76000641 - 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Matthews House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 582 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 3 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	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-LINCOLN-004
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LINCOLN-002
12 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WILKES003

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Matthews House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Sales & Lamar Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Pink Pearl Quarry	Granite	Producer
Silver Pearl Quarry	Granite	Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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

2 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
	Chennault House	0.7 miles	1976
	Simmons-Cullars House	5.8 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000641 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 10 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.