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One of 48 National Register listings published here for Floyd County · listed in 1980 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Georgia School for the Deaf Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- Address. Padlock St., 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. 80001045 - 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
300 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Georgia School for the Deaf Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,582 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 129 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 | 129 |
| Debris and open burning | 129 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| 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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 44 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Georgia School for the Deaf Historic District: 21 past producers, 10 occurrences, 9 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.
| Where | 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 |
Storms near this property
1 since 1996Regional 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 |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cave Spring Commercial Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
 | Samuel W. Robbins House | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
 | Joseph Ford House | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
 | John T. Mann House | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
| Cave Spring High School | 0.2 miles | 1980 | |
| Rolator Park Historic District | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80001045 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.