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William S. Simmons Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Simmons Plantation, also known as the Wesley House, is a Greek Revival brick home located in Cave Spring, Georgia, United States, North America. The home was built in the 1840s, prior to the American Civil War, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”

Wikipedia article William S. Simmons Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Floyd 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

  • Listed as. Simmons, William S., Plantation - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Alabama St., Cave Spring, 30124
  • When was it listed? June 1980
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Cave Spring MRA
  • Census division. Cave Spring
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80001061 - 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

327 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of William S. Simmons Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,103 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 165 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/incendiarism165
Debris and open burning121
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning20 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FLOYD-009
6 September 2007Arson/incendiarism13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FLOYD-008
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism33 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of William S. Simmons Plantation: 24 past producers, 13 occurrences, 7 prospects, 3 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Aluminum, Iron, Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Callahan Property Cave SpringManganese, CobaltPast Producer
Gibson MineManganese, Cobalt, NickelProducerResidual
Mccollum Prospect Cave SpringCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Alabama Company PropertyIron, ManganesePast Producer1874, 1918
CallahanManganese, Nickel, CobaltUnknownResidual
MccollumManganese, Nickel, CobaltUnknownResidual
Spence PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Arrington PropertyIronPast Producer
Cave Spring-AIronPast ProducerResidual
Cave Spring-BIronPast ProducerResidual

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996HailCave 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Carroll-Richardson Grist Mill0.5 miles1980
Dr. W. T. McKinney House0.5 miles1980
John M. Carroll House0.6 miles1980
Simmons House0.8 miles1980
Carroll-Harper House0.8 miles1980
Oliver P. Fannin House0.8 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80001061 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Floyd CountyAll 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.