Montgomery County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Montgomery County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Courthouse Square in Mount Vernon, Georgia, the county seat of Montgomery County, Georgia. It was built in 1907 and renovated in 1991-92.”
Wikipedia article Montgomery County Courthouse (Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Montgomery 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Courthouse Sq., Mounty Vernon, 30445
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Georgia County Courthouses TR
Census division. Mount Vernon-Ailey
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Alexander Blair
National Register reference number. 80001122 - 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

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of Montgomery County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,154 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 55 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	231
Arson/incendiarism	55
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Smoking	17
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	9

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	Natural	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MONTGOMERY-009
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WHEELER-010
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MONTGOMERY-008
24 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MONTGOMERY-006
18 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WHEELER-005

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Montgomery County Courthouse: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mt Vernon Mine Montgomery Sand Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mt. Vernon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Alluvium
Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Alluvium
Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Alluvium
Unnamed Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Alluvium

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Willie T. McArthur Farm	5.7 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001122 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 2 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.