Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“The Crawford-Dorsey House in Lovejoy, Georgia was first begun by William Crawford in circa 1820. He then moved his home on log rollers to the site of the Crawford home and connected the two homes together to form one residence.”
Wikipedia article Crawford-Dorsey House and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Clayton County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84000972- 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
148 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Crawford-Dorsey House and Cemetery
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 570 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 18 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
64
Misuse of fire by a minor
33
Arson/incendiarism
18
Smoking
11
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Recreation and ceremony
4
Natural
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Crawford-Dorsey House and Cemetery: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lovejoy, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning.
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.
This tornado is a continuation of the F2 tornado that began near the Atlanta Motor Speedway just west of Hampton in Henry county, then continued north-northwest passing just east of Lovejoy in Clayton county, then across the Edgar Blalock Raw Water Reservation, at which point it turned northwest and finally entered Clayton county just west of the Edgar Blalock Raw Water Reservation. The tornado traveled approximately one mile to the north-northwest in Clayton county, finally lifting near Jodeco Road southeast of Lake Spivey. The tornado had weakened and narrowed by the time it entered Clayton county. However, it was still rated as an F1 with a path width of about 100 yards. The Clayton County Emergency Management Director reported that 50 homes in the Kade Cove subdivision of Lovejoy sustained damage, 20 of which had major structural damage. Many trees and power lines were down in the area. Power was also out to much of the county.
The Clayton County 911 Center reported that lightning struck a home on Riviera Drive in Lovejoy in far southern Clayton county. No specific details regarding damages were provided.
An amateur radio operator reported that a couple of trees were down on Tara Boulevard at Flicker Road. The downed trees had also brought down a power line at the location.
The Clayton County 911 Center reported that one tree was down at the intersection of Panhandle Road and Woolsey Road near the Fayette county line, a couple of trees were down at the intersection of Tara Boulevard and Old Town Place, and a couple of trees were down at the intersection of Lake Jodeco Road and Camp Road, all in the Jonesboro area.
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.
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.
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