John M. Hopkins Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Hopkins Cabin, located in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge south of Folkston, Georgia, off GA 121/23 in Charlton County, Georgia, is a log cabin built in 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article John M. Hopkins Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Charlton County · listed in 1983 · 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.
Listed as. Hopkins, John M., Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. SW of Folkston, off GA 121/23, Folkston, 31537
When was it listed? March 1983
Category. building
Census division. St. George
National Register reference number. 83000186 - 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of John M. Hopkins Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,463 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	79
Debris and open burning	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
7 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	CANAL ROAD
5 September 2006	Natural	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CHARLTON-006
5 August 2011	Natural	7.8 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	GA-28 (KNOCK OFF)
30 August 1997	Natural	45 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2004	Natural	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charlton County

Storms near this property

60 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Folkston, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 35 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 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
October 1996	Flash Flood	Folkston	$160,000	no account filed
February 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$135,000	Thunderstorm winds severly damaged numerous homes and mobile homes. Barns and other buildings were also destroyed. Trees and power lines were blown onto roadways.
July 2019	Lightning	Folkston	$100,000	A lightning strike caused a structure fire to the Badcock Home Furniture storm in Folkston near 1st and Elm Streets. The structure was a total loss. A home nearby was also struck by lightning, but did not catch fire. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the even tin Storm Data.
December 2002	Tornado (F0)	Folkston	$50,000	Residents reported tornado on the ground. Two homes on Camp Pickney Road damaged. Right mover moving down State Road 40 into Camden County.
September 1996	Flash Flood	Folkston	$15,000	no account filed
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$5,000	On North 3rd St. tops of pine trees snapped off 30 feet above the ground.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$5,000	Large pines downed onto power lines. Along Highway 252.
February 1998	Tornado (F0)	Folkston	$5,000	Large trees were blown down. One mobile home was damaged. Power line poles were snapped.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$3,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees were blown down.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees were blown down.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
September 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,000	Power poles were knocked down E-SE of Folkston. \| Over 1000 electric customers were reported \| without power. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
November 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
February 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,000	no account filed
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down along HWY 121.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$500	Large trees were blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$500	Large trees were blown down.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Folkston	-	State Road 40 in Folkston was washed out in some places due to flash flooding.
June 2018	Heavy Rain	Folkston	-	Street flooding was reported in Folkston.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	A tree was blown down onto a power line and numerous large tree limbs were blown down across the roadway near Spanish Creek Road.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	Several pine trees were snapped.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	The NWS Incident Meteorologist on site at the Honey Prairie Wildfire complex reported widespread tree damage at the East Entrance of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge park.
May 2011	Hail	Folkston	-	Quarter to penny size hail was reported as well as multiple limbs down at the Folkston Country Club.
June 2010	Hail	Folkston	-	Penny to marble size hail was reported a mile east of Folkston. Gusty winds of 45 to 50 mph were reported.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	A pine tree was blown down across Highway 40. Hail was observed, but the size unknown.
April 2009	Hail	Folkston	-	One inch hail was reported.
March 2009	Heavy Rain	Folkston	-	Law enforcement closed U.S. Highway 1 in Folkston, Georgia due to street flooding.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	An incident meteorologist reported trees down about 2 miles southwest of Folkston.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	Large tree limbs were blown down and damaged power lines. Power was out along Georgia Highway 121 near Chester.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	Large trees blown down on power lines along State Road 121 in Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	Trees down on highway 40 in Folkston. One tree down across the road. Report from road dept.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	Numerous large tree limbs down.
February 2006	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Folkston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charlton 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 83000186 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charlton County	All 4 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.