BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Oglethorpe County · listed in 1979 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Philomath Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- Address. GA 22, Philomath, 30660
- When was it listed? July 1979
- Category. district
- Census division. Maxeys
- National Register reference number. 79000740 - 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
79 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Philomath Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 296 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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 | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-OGLETHORPE-010 |
| 9 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-GREENE-012 |
| 9 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-OGLETHORPE-003 |
| 27 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-OGLETHORPE-002 |
| 14 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-WILKES-013 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Philomath Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ga Manganese Co Mine/Taliaferro Magnetite Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | Residual |
Storms near this property
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Philomath, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Philomath | $1,500 | The Oglethorpe County Emergency Manager reported that several trees were blown down in Philomath. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Philomath | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
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 79000740 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.