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Photograph of Young Harris College Historic District
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Young Harris College Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Young Harris College Historic District in Young Harris, Georgia is a 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Young Harris College Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Towns County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Young Harris College Campus, Appleby Dr., Young Harris, 30582
  • When was it listed? August 1983
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Young Harris
  • National Register reference number. 83000245 - 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

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Young Harris College Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,186 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 burning149
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestIVY LOG GAP
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-UNION-001
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TOWNS-001

Every fire recorded in Towns County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Young Harris College Historic District: 5 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Corundum, Manganese. 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
Hog Creek Corundum MineCorundumPast Producer
Mcconell EstateManganesePast Producer1919
E.R. Brown MineGoldProspectVein
Kerby ProspectGoldProspectVein
Killian MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Lot 184 MineGoldUnknownVein
Malden ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Murdock Vein MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Placer MineGoldProspectVein
Ross MineGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in Towns County

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Young Harris, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 4 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998HailYoung Harris$5,000The public reported golf ball to baseball size hail in Young Harris. Up to one and a half inch diameter hail was reported in Hiawassee.
April 2011HailYoung Harris-The public observed quarter-sized hail in Young Harris. WSR-88D radar data suggests that penny to quarter-size hail likely continued eastward across the county toward Titus.
May 2006HailYoung Harris-Several reports of hail ranging in size from pennies to quarters were received from the public in the Young Harris and Hiawassee areas. Hail was reported to have covered the ground at one location in Young Harris.
May 2006HailYoung Harris-The public reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Towns 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Towns County Jail5.1 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000245 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Towns CountyAll 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.
  • 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.