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Mays-Boddie House

Built in 1830 (Single pen and double pen architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Mays-Boddie House, in Troup County, Georgia, near Mountville, Georgia, was built around 1830. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”

Wikipedia article Mays-Boddie House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Troup County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1830, Single pen and double pen architecture.

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

The listing

  • Address. GA 109, Mountville, 30241
  • When was it listed? June 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. LaGrange
  • When was it built? 1830
  • Architectural style. Single pen and double pen architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82002489 - 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Mays-Boddie House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 606 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 9 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 burning94
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony3

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
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-TROUP-001
23 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TROUP-002
2 August 1995Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 1993Arson/incendiarism8.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mays-Boddie House: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Nickel. 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
Lagrange QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Louise Chromite DepositChromium, Iron, NickelProspect1870
Pothill MineChromiumPast Producer
Turner MineChromiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Troup 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
Nathan Van Boddie House0.8 miles1977
Kidd-Robertson House1.2 miles2008
Reid-Glanton House2.7 miles1972
Nutwood4.1 miles1974
Dixie Cotton Mills and Mill Village Historic District5.2 miles2022
H. Frank Jarrell House5.4 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002489 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Troup CountyAll 35 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.