Champion-McGarrah Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Off GA 30, Friendship, 31803
When was it listed? June 1984
Category. building
Census division. Buena Vista
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 84001156 - 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Champion-McGarrah Plantation between 1992 and 2019, burning about 316 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 12 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	63
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
24 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WEBSTER-005
18 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MARION-009
17 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1992	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1995	Natural	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Marion 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Shiloh-Marion Baptist Church and Cemetery	5.3 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001156 in Record Group 79.
Marion County	All 7 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.