Ridgewood

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 141 National Register listings published here for Muscogee County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Jenkins Rd., Upatoi, 31829
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. building
Census division. Columbus North
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80001215 - 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Ridgewood between 1992 and 2019, burning about 380 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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	45
Arson/incendiarism	23
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	2
Natural	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
5 September 1999	Smoking	28 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MUSCOGEE001
22 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MUSCOGEE-001
13 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1999	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TALBOT-007
18 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HARRIS-004

Every fire recorded in Muscogee County

Storms near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upatoi, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Upatoi	$25,000	A National Weather Service survey determined that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds 80 mph and a maximum path width of 100 yards touched down in extreme northern Muscogee County near Deerwood Court snapping a few pine trees and causing damage to shingles one the roof of a home. The tornado moved northeast quickly crossing into Harris County. No injuries were reported. [04/14/19: Tornado #2, County #1/3, EF-0, Muscogee, 2019:022].
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Upatoi	$3,000	Emergency manager reported 3 trees down around the Utapoi community.
March 2023	Hail	Upatoi	-	Half dollar size hail reported near intersection of Cartledge Rd and Hwy 80.
March 2023	Hail	Upatoi	-	Ping Pong Ball size hail reported on Upatoi Lane.
June 2022	Hail	Upatoi	-	Quarter size hail reported in Utapoi.
December 2021	Hail	Upatoi	-	Trained spotter reported nickel to quarter-sized hail on McKee Road near the intersection of County Line Road.
May 2018	Flash Flood	Upatoi	-	Georgia DOT and county emergency personnel reported road closures due to flooding along Highway 80 at the Kendell Creek crossing.
July 2002	Hail	Upatoi	-	The public reported dime to quarter size hail in Upatoi and dime size hail in Columbus and North Columbus.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Upatoi	-	The public reported that large tree limbs were blown. Winds gusts were estimated at two different locations in Upatoi at 65 to greater than 70 mph.
July 2002	Hail	Upatoi	-	The public reported that hail, ranging in size from dimes to quarters, fell for a period of 15 to 20 minutes. A rainfall estimate of four to five inches was also provided at this same location.

Every storm recorded in Muscogee 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001215 in Record Group 79.
Muscogee County	All 141 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.
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.