Built in 1855. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“The Davis-Felton Plantation, near Henderson in Houston County, Georgia, is a plantation that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located northwest of Henderson on Felton Rd.”
Wikipedia article Davis-Felton Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Houston County · listed in 1979 · category: District · built in 1855.
National Register reference number.79000731- 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
235 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Davis-Felton Plantation
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,040 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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
140
Equipment and vehicle use
50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Smoking
10
Arson/incendiarism
8
Natural
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Recreation and ceremony
2
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 Davis-Felton Plantation: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Henderson, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 1 injury. 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 Houston County Sheriff's Office and the 911 center reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across southern and central Houston County from west of Elko to northeast of Perry. A tree was blown over onto Highway 127 around Arena road resulting in a 3-car traffic accident and one minor injury. Power lines were blown down around the intersection of Highway 41 and Highway 26. Several trees were blown down onto I-75 between mile markers 131 and 133. A few trees were also blown down on Sewell Road and a large branch was blown off a tree on Frank Satterfield Road damaging a car.
The Houston County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down near Henderson in the western part of the county and a few trees were down near Elko in the south central part of the county. The tin roof of a church at County Line Road and Georgia Highway 26 two miles east of Elko was damaged.
The Houston County Emergency Management Director reported that rainfall of 2.0 to 2.5 inches over a 2-hour period had resulted in six to seven inches of water on some roads, particularly in the Bonaire area. Street flooding was observed at the intersection of Georgia Highway 96 and Georgia Highway 247.
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
1 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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