Dorough Round Barn and Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Dorough Round Barn and Farm near Hickory Level, Georgia in Villa Rica, Georgia is a 196-acre (79 ha) property that includes a round barn built in 1917. The barn is actually 14-sided, which approximates round.”
Wikipedia article Dorough Round Barn and Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Carroll 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. N of Hickory Level on Villa Rica Rd., Hickory Level, 30179
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. building
Census division. Villa Rica
National Register reference number. 80000986 - 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

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Dorough Round Barn and Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 648 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 70 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	99
Arson/incendiarism	70
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	7
Smoking	7

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
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	8.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1993	Debris and open burning	5.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CARROLL-008
18 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Dorough Round Barn and Farm: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur, Iron-Pyrite, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Villa Rica Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
W.M. Raburn Property	Manganese	Occurrence	1919
A. C. Watkins Prospect	Iron-Pyrite, Gold	Occurrence	Pyrite
J Humphrey Prospect	Sulfur	Occurrence
Lasseter Prospect	Iron-Pyrite	Past Producer	Pyrite
W T Raburn Prospect	Sulfur	Occurrence
Hart	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Hixon	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
J.L.Davis Property	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Carroll 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

3 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
Williams Family Farm	2.8 miles	2005
Eric Vernon Folds House	2.9 miles	2005
North Villa Rica Commercial Historic District	4.9 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000986 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll County	All 17 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.