Broad Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Broad Street Historic District in LaGrange, Georgia is a historic district. It includes the 1855-built Bellevue, an "outstanding example" of a high-style Greek Revival mansion which is a National Historic Landmark.”
Wikipedia article Broad Street Historic District (LaGrange, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Troup County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by McLendon Circle, Gordon St., Vernon Rd., and Wavely Way, LaGrange, 30240
When was it listed? January 1984
Category. district
Census division. LaGrange
National Register reference number. 84001264 - 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Broad Street Historic District between 1992 and 2016, burning about 467 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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	95
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Arson/incendiarism	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
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
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TROUP-003
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TROUP-005
26 August 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TROUP-004

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Broad Street Historic District: 3 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Lagrange Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crosby Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Davis Prospect	Mica	Occurrence
Hart Prospect	Barium-Barite	Prospect
Mat Teague Prospect	Barium-Barite	Prospect

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
College Home/Smith Hall	0.1 miles	1982
Bellevue	0.1 miles	1972
Heard-Dallis House	0.4 miles	1975
Troup County Courthouse, Annex, and Jail	0.6 miles	1995
Vernon Road Historic District	0.7 miles	1984
Lagrange Commercial Historic District	0.7 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001264 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Troup County	All 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.