Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“Ruff's Mill and Concord Covered Bridge is a historical site in Cobb County, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Ruff's Mill and Concord Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Cobb County · listed in 1980 · category: District.
National Register reference number.80001001- 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
26 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Ruff's Mill and Concord Covered Bridge
between 1993 and 2015, burning about 67 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Arson/incendiarism
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Natural
1
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 Ruff's Mill and Concord Covered Bridge: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur. 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
Smyrna, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2013: 16 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 lightning.
The reports record 4 deaths and 250 injuries. 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.
A preliminary survey confirmed a small F1 tornado touched down for less than 30 seconds. Path width 30 yards...Length 100 yards. A Dairy Queen sustained the worst damage, as the roof was completely destroyed. A pay phone on the southeast side of the building held the roof up, sparing the lives of the 30 people inside. Four of the occupants sustained minor injuries. A business sign next door to the restaurant was knocked over. A Chevy van was picked up and moved although there appeared to be only slight cosmetic damage to it.
The same supercell that had tracked from Alabama across Haralson and Paulding counties spawned another tornado in Smyrna. The touchdown was along Windy Hill Road just west of Cobb Parkway where a commercial building sustained heavy damage. A filling station and car dealership less than a block east also sustained heavy damage. There was $500,000 to $750,000 in damage to new cars. Trees over a foot in diameter were snapped or uprooted. In total, 59 buildings were damaged, but no injuries were reported. Aerial and ground surveys by NWS employees showed the path varied from 100 to 200 yards wide with a length of about 3 miles. The tornado crossed just into Fulton county near I-285 and the Chattahoochee River. Dime to quarter size hail and other wind damage were also reported in north and central Cobb county.
Amateur radio operators relayed reports that dozens of trees were down in the east central part of Cobb county near Mount Bethel. Green Forest Parkway was closed at South Cobb Drive and South Atlanta Road.
The public reported two trees down on South Atlanta Road in Smyrna, north of Interstate 285. The fallen trees damaged two cars which subsequently resulted in an automobile accident.
The East Cobb Neighbor reported that very heavy rain caused an awning at a shopping center in Smyrna to collapse. Debris from the damaged awning was spread across the sidewalk.
An amateur radio operator and the public reported that several trees and power lines were down between Smyrna and Powder Springs in southern Cobb county.
A trained storm spotter observed penny to nickel-sized hail on Concord Road near South Cobb Drive in Smyrna. WSR-88D radar data suggests that similar-sized hail likely fell eastward toward the Fulton county line and the Vinings area. Two trees were also blown down in the Marietta area from this same thunderstorm.
The public observed penny-sized hail just east and southeast of Smyrna, especially near the intersection of Interstate-75 and Interstate-285. Most of the hail was pea size.
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.
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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