Cave Spring Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Cave Spring Commercial Historic District in Cave Spring, Georgia is a 6 acres (2.4 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The listing included 12 contributing buildings and a contributing site.”
Wikipedia article Cave Spring Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Floyd County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Alabama, Rome and Cedartown Rds., Broad and Padlock Sts., Cave Spring, 30124
When was it listed? June 1980
Category. district
Also known as. Cave Spring MRA
Census division. Cave Spring
National Register reference number. 80001028 - 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

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Cave Spring Commercial Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,554 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 130 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
Arson/incendiarism	130
Debris and open burning	127
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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 2002	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-FLOYD-009
6 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-FLOYD-008
4 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	33 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-FLOYD-027
16 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-FLOYD-021

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Cave Spring Commercial Historic District: 20 past producers, 10 occurrences, 7 prospects, 3 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Aluminum, Iron, Cobalt, Manganese. 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
Callahan Property Cave Spring	Manganese, Cobalt	Past Producer
Gibson Mine	Manganese, Cobalt, Nickel	Producer	Residual
Spence Property	Iron, Manganese	Prospect	1918
Berkstresser Prop Cave Spring	Cobalt, Manganese	Occurrence
Callahan	Manganese, Nickel, Cobalt	Unknown	Residual
Mccollum	Manganese, Nickel, Cobalt	Unknown	Residual
Mccollum Prospect Cave Spring	Cobalt, Manganese	Occurrence
Cave Spring-A	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Cave Spring-B	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Cave Spring-C	Iron	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cave Spring, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 hail. 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
May 1996	Hail	Cave Spring	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Samuel W. Robbins House	under 500 feet	1980
Joseph Ford House	under 500 feet	1980
John T. Mann House	0.1 miles	1980
Georgia School for the Deaf Historic District	0.2 miles	1980
Oliver P. Fannin House	0.2 miles	1980
Cave Spring High School	0.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001028 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Floyd County	All 48 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.