Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“The Gordon-Lee Mansion is located in Chickamauga, Georgia and was originally referred to as the Gordon residence. Construction began in 1840 and was not completed until 1847 due to labor and financial issues.”
Wikipedia article Gordon-Lee Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Walker County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76000654- 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
259 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 259 fires within 5 miles of Gordon-Lee House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 710 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 61 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
149
Arson/incendiarism
61
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Recreation and ceremony
9
Smoking
7
Natural
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Gordon-Lee House: 2 past producers, 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Chickamauga, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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.
The tornado touched down just southwest of Chickamauga in the Ridgecrest Acre mobile home park. Touchdown was noted to be at the intersection of Georgia Highway 136 and 193. Three mobile homes were completely destroyed, and a total of 28 homes/ mobile homes had damage varying from moderate to being totally destroyed. Homes were moved off their foundations and numerous trees were either snapped or uprooted.
Lightning caused a barn on Glass Mill Road in Chickamauga to burn to the ground, destroying a tractor and a pickup truck parked inside. A large outbuilding on Stanfield Road in LaFayette was also struck by lightning and caught fire, causing $3,000 in damage at that location. Times are estimated.
The Walker County Emergency Manager reported that around 14 trees were either snapped or uprooted onto several roads in the Davis Crossroads to Chickamauga to Lafayette area.
The Walker County Emergency Management Director reported that some roads in the county, especially the west and southwest portion were flooded. Over a foot of water was reported on some roads in the Kay Conley area. In excess of two inches of rain fell across much of the county during the early morning hours.
The Walker county 911 center reported that heavy rain and thunderstorms were resulting in minor flooding across the north portion of the county, north and northwest of Chickamauga.
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.
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.
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