J. L. Bridges Home Place

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Oglethorpe County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bridges, J. L., Home Place - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N of Lexington on GA 22, Lexington, 30648
When was it listed? January 1978
Category. building
Census division. Vesta-Enterprise
National Register reference number. 78000999 - 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of J. L. Bridges Home Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,062 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 27 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	110
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Arson/incendiarism	27
Natural	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	6

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
8 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020OGLETHORPE010
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-OGLETHORPE-008
21 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-OGLETHORPE-007
20 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-OGLETHORPE-006
18 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Oglethorpe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of J. L. Bridges Home Place: 17 producers, 7 past producers. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension. 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
Coggins Millstone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Galaxy Satin Blue Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Bennie and Harvey Quarry	Granite	Producer
Briarpatch Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Galaxy Blue Quarry	Granite	Producer
Georgia Carolina Quarry	Granite	Producer
Grimes Brothers Quarry No. 2	Granite	Past Producer
Grimes Brothers Quarry No. 3	Granite	Producer
Grimes Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Harmony Blue Mill	Granite	Producer

Every working recorded in Oglethorpe County

Storms near this property

34 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexington, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2005	Lightning	Lexington	$15,000	The Oglethorpe Echo of Lexington reported that the Courthouse Clock Tower in downtown Lexington took a direct hit from lightning. Nine computers in the building were destroyed and the building suffered some structural damage as well.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$5,000	The Athens Daily News reported that several trees were blown down in the county, mainly near U.S. Highway 78. The downed trees also knocked down several power lines. At least two trees were blown down on U.S. Highway 78.
May 1998	Hail	Lexington	$5,000	The public reported hail from dime size to as big as a fist covered the ground.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$3,000	The Oglethorpe county 911 center reported that some trees and power lines were blown down. There were a number of funnel cloud sightings in the county, but no tornado touchdowns were reported.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$3,000	The Oglethorpe County 911 center reported that a few trees and power lines were down along Georgia Highway 77 North, Elberton Road, near Lexington. Other power lines and several trees were also down near Stephens.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$3,000	The Oglethorpe County 911 center reported that several trees were blown down and a telephone pole was down near Lexington on U.S. Highway 78.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$2,000	The Oglethorpe county 911 center reported that trees were blown down.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$2,000	The Oglethorpe county 911 center reported that trees were blown down.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$1,500	no account filed
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$1,000	Tree down into powerlines along Elberton Road north of HWY 78.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$1,000	Report of tree was downed on Bisson Woods Drive.
December 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$1,000	The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported that three trees were down between Philomath and Lexington.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$1,000	The Lexington Police Department reported that several trees were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$1,000	The Oglethorpe county 911 center reported that a few trees had been blown down.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$1,000	The Lexington sheriff's office reported dime size hail, trees down, and power outages.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$1,000	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$300	Oglethorpe county 911 reported several trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$250	The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported that one tree was blown down along Georgia Highway 77.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	Public report of damage to Strickland Pride Produce of E Main St near Platt St.
February 2005	Hail	Lexington	-	The public reported penny-sized hail.
February 2005	Hail	Lexington	-	The public reported penny-sized hail.
May 2005	Hail	Lexington	-	The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.
July 2004	Hail	Lexington	-	An off duty Lexington Police officer reported golf ball-sized hail.
November 2002	Hail	Lexington	-	The Oglethorpe county Emergency Management Director reported dime size hail.
June 2001	Hail	Lexington	-	The Oglethorpe County 911 center reported dime size hail.
August 1999	Hail	Lexington	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Lexington	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Lexington	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Lexington	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Lexington	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Lexington	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Lexington	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Lexington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oglethorpe 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Faust Houses and Outbuildings	2.7 miles	1980
Smith-Harris House	3.8 miles	1985
Lexington Historic District	6.6 miles	1977
Watson Mill Covered Bridge and Mill Historic District	6.9 miles	1991
Howard's Covered Bridge	7.2 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000999 in Record Group 79.
Oglethorpe County	All 12 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.