BlockFrom the record
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Catoosa County · listed in 1979 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Oglethorpe Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- Address. U.S. 27, Fort Oglethorpe, 30742
- When was it listed? April 1979
- Category. district
- Census division. Fort Oglethorpe-Lakeview
- National Register reference number. 79000702 - 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
320 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 320 fires within 5 miles of Fort Oglethorpe Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 669 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 77 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 | 151 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 77 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-WALKER-016 |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-CATOOSA-007 |
| 5 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park | HAY |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fort Oglethorpe Historic District: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Iron, Aluminum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett Mine No. 1 | Aluminum | Past Producer | ||
| Bennett No.2 Prospect | Aluminum | Prospect | ||
| Hall Ore Bank Area | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| Mcfarland Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| Alton Park Tract | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | 1952 | |
| Alton Park Tract | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Chatanooga Mine | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Dave L Brown Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| General Shale Georgia Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Rossville Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | 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.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park | 4.8 miles | 1966 |
 | Blackford-Gray House | 7.1 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79000702 in Record Group 79. |
| Catoosa 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.