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Photograph of Sapp Plantation
Photograph by Billie F Pommier, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sapp Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Sapp Plantation is a historic plantation located outside of Sardis, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 8, 1980, and is located northwest of Sardis on Georgia 24.”

Wikipedia article Sapp Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Burke County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. NW of Sardis on GA 24, Sardis, 30456
  • When was it listed? February 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sardis
  • National Register reference number. 80000979 - 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

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Sapp Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,280 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 42 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 burning111
Arson/incendiarism42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural8
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-BURKE-002
4 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021BURKE007
30 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-BURKE-005
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-BURKE-020
8 August 2014Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-JENKINS-001
4 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2014Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-BURKE-010

Every fire recorded in Burke County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sardis, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2015Thunderstorm WindOld Sardis$8,000Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down on Hwy 23 near Sardis.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSardis$8,000Dispatch reported powerlines down in Sardis.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSardis$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees in Sardis.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSardis$5,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSardis$4,000Georgia Power reported powerlines down along Hwy 24 and Tom Bargeron Road near Sardis.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindOld Sardis$4,000Georgia Power reported powerlines down in the town of Sardis.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindSardis$4,000Sheriff reported several trees down on Giles Street and Hwy 23 in Sardis.
August 2023FloodOld Sardis$500Burke County Law Enforcement reported several flooded roadways throughout the county.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindSardis$500Dispatch reported a tree down in the Sardis area.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSardis$500A few large trees were downed in Sardis along Georgia Highway 24 by thunderstorm winds.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSardis-Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down blocking both lanes at the intersection of Johnson Road and Ellison Bridge Road near Sardis.
August 2024Flash FloodSardis-Burke County EM reported multiple flooded roadways in the Town of Sardis including North Mill Street, Cemetery Street, and along Old Sardis Road.
August 2024Flash FloodOld Sardis-Burke County EM reported Highway 23 at Black Road is flooded.
August 2024Flash FloodOld Sardis-Burke County Sheriff's Office reported Mill Pond Road near Murray Hill Road is closed due to flooding.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOld Sardis-Numerous trees were downed in Sardis. Time estimated.
May 2014HailSardis-Sardis Police Dept. reported quarter size hail.
June 2014HailOld Sardis-EMA employee reported quarter size hail and a tree down in his yard off of Old Sardis Road on the south side of Sardis.
June 2011HailSardis-Public reported quarter size hail along with tree limbs down.
May 2009HailOld Sardis-Sardis FD reported pea size hail in Sardis and penny size hail SSW of Sardis between Hwys 23 and 24.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindOld Sardis-Sheriff Dispatch reported a large tree down along Old Sardis Rd.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSardis-Reported power lines down in Sardis along Highway 24.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindSardis-Storm survey found a linear track with trees down in the rural areas from west of Sardis to just east of Girard.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSardis-Highway Dept. reported several trees down on Brown Morely road and Thompson Creek road.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSardis-Channel 12 out of Augusta reported that the roof of a church was blown off.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSardis-Public reported a couple of trees down.
December 2005Tornado (F0)Sardis-An F0 tornado touched down intermittently along a path from near the intersection of Creek and Claxton roads to a Cypress Pond road NE of Girard. Only trees were taken down. This was the second tornado produced by the same supercell that spawned another tornado north to northeast of Midville.
May 2002HailSardis-Emergency manager reported quarter size hail just south of Sardis.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSardis-EPD reported large limbs and powerlines down in the Sardis area.

Every storm recorded in Burke 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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Girard Elementary School6.1 miles2021
McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery6.7 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80000979 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Burke CountyAll 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.
  • 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.