Willow Lake

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Willow Lake, in Macon County, Georgia near Marshallville, Georgia, is a historic house built in 1875-80. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Willow Lake (Marshallville, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Macon 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Rt. 1, Marshallville, 31057
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Marshallville and Vicinity MRA
Census division. Marshallville
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80004449 - 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Willow Lake between 1992 and 2019, burning about 744 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 24 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	121
Arson/incendiarism	24
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	4

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 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MACON-005
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PEACH-010

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Storms near this property

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshallville, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
March 2026	Tornado (EF2)	Marshallville	2 hurt	The tornado first touched down west of Bryant Hill Road and moved\|through a large pecan orchard snapping and uprooting numerous\|trees. The tornado moved across Bryant Hill Road and very rapidly reached max intensity as it approached Sleepy Hollow Road. JGX radar data also confirms the presence of very strong velocities in the area near Sleepy Hollow Road as well. The\|tornado struck a mobile home community on the west side of Sleepy Hollow Road destroying 4 mobile homes, overturning a home and damaging several others. One of the residents of a home was thrown approximately 40 feet from one of the destroyed homes. In another home, there were 2 injuries as a result of the home being\|flipped over and destroyed. The overturned mobile home remained intact, however the anchors which were concreted into the ground were pulled out of the ground and hanging from the frame. Numerous trees nearby the community and across the street were snapped. The combination of the damage to the mobile homes and the scope of the tree damage nearby are consistent with high end EF1 to low end EF2 and the basis of the low end EF2 rating for this storm. The tornado continued east toward Hwy 49 snapping and uprooting trees. Two large silos had their tops ripped off with bricks and debris strewn all around the area near the silos. The tornado crossed Hwy 49 snapping and uprooting trees in a pecan orchard and flipping 3 sections of a center pivot. As\|the storm continued east, a weakening trend was noted both on radar and the corresponding damage on the ground with mostly sporadic tree damage across Vegetable Road, County Rd 123 and County road 116. The tornado lifted north of Juice plant road just east of County Road 116.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshallville	$275,000	A deputy with the Macon County Sheriff's Office reported that from 50 to 75 trees were down and hundreds more tree limbs in and around Marshallville. Dozens of power lines were also down in the area. At least 10 homes sustained damage from downed trees.
March 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Marshallville	$45,000	A National Weather Service survey found that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 mph and a maximum path width of 300 yards touched down east of Marshallville along Juice Plant Road. A few trees were snapped along Juice Plant Road as the storm moved east northeast south of the roadway. A few trees were downed along Finch Lane where one tree fell across the corner of a home and several other trees were snapped in the tree line behind the home. The tornado crossed Camp John Hope Road downing several more trees before crossing Big Indian Creek into Southern Peach County. No injuries were reported. [03/03/19: Tornado #12, County #1/2, EF0, Macon, 2019:017].
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshallville	$4,000	The Macon County Emergency Manager reported several small trees blown down near the intersection of Sleepy Hollow Road and Camellia Road.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshallville	$2,000	The Macon County 911 Center reported that several trees were down along Georgia Highways 224 and 49 and in the city of Montezuma. One tree was also down in Oglethorpe.
December 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshallville	$1,000	The Macon County 911 center reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Highway 127 and Orchard Road.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshallville	$1,000	The Macon County Sheriff reported that up to six trees were down along Georgia Highway 49 just north of Marshallville.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshallville	$1,000	The Marshallville Police Department reported that a few trees were blown down.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshallville	$200	Thunderstorm winds knocked down three trees west of town on highway 127.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Marshallville	-	The Emergency Manager reported a portion of Highway 127, east of Marshallville, was inundated with flowing water and impassable. Radar estimates indicate that 6 to 8 inches of rain occurred in the area, with locally higher amounts up to 10 inches, resulting in the flash flooding.
April 2005	Hail	Marshallville	-	The public reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Macon 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
Wilkes Knob Plantation	1.0 miles	1980
Marshallville Commercial District	2.3 miles	1980
Massee Lane	2.7 miles	1980
East Main Street Residential District	3.0 miles	1980
Lamson-Richardson School	3.7 miles	1981
West Main Street Residential District	3.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80004449 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macon County	All 17 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.