Glen Echo

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Glen Echo is a historic plantation house near Ellabell, Georgia, United States. The house was built circa 1773 and is an early example of Plantation Plain style.”
Wikipedia article Glen Echo (Ellabell, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Bryan County · listed in 1978 · 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2 mi. (3.2 km) E of Ellabelle on GA 204, Ellabelle, 31308
When was it listed? January 1978
Category. building
Census division. Pembroke
National Register reference number. 78000965 - 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

425 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 425 fires within 5 miles of Glen Echo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,722 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 125 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	192
Arson/incendiarism	125
Natural	29
Railroad operations and maintenance	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	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
9 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRYAN NORTH001
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-EFFINGHAM-008
28 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BRYAN NORTH-003
25 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Bryan County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Glen Echo: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Eden Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Georgia Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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 78000965 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bryan County	All 9 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.