Bowdre-Rees-Knox House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for McDuffie County · listed in 1979 · 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Thomson on Old Wrightsboro Rd., Thomas, 30824
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. building
Census division. Thomson
National Register reference number. 79003109 - 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

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Bowdre-Rees-Knox House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 606 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 19 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	149
Smoking	20
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	10
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MCDUFFIE-005
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MCDUFFIE-008
26 September 1993	Smoking	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2016	Debris and open burning	7.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MCDUFFIE-009
19 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCDUFFIE-013
19 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCDUFFIE-012
19 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MCDUFFIE-008

Every fire recorded in McDuffie County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bowdre-Rees-Knox House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Weston and Brooker Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in McDuffie 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

6 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
Wrightsboro Historic District	1.4 miles	1998
John Moore Lazenby House	3.9 miles	2013
Old Rock House	3.9 miles	1970
Hickory Hill	5.0 miles	1979
Hayes Line Historic District	5.1 miles	2000
Thomas E. Watson House	5.2 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003109 in Record Group 79.
McDuffie County	All 16 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.