BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Harshaw-Stovall House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- Address. GA 255, Sautee, 30571
- When was it listed? June 1984
- Category. building
- Census division. Helen
- National Register reference number. 84001302 - 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
140 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Harshaw-Stovall House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 770 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 August 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-HABERSHAM-014 |
| 10 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 29 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Harshaw-Stovall House: 20 prospects, 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Davis Property | Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Childs Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Childs Placer | Gold | Prospect | Placer Dominates, Some Vein Prospecting | |
| Conley Vein | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Deans Vein | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Franco-American | Gold | Prospect | Vein Some Placer Mining Also Done | |
| Franklin & Glenn | Gold | Prospect | Placer Dominates, Some Vein Prospecting | |
| Frazier | Gold | Prospect | Vein Some Placer Mining Also Done | |
| Gayton Plac | Gold | Prospect | Vein Some Placer Mining Also Done | |
| Glen Comyn Gold Mine | Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sautee, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2021 | Flash Flood | Sautee | $20,000 | The Emergency Manager reported Lynch Mountain Road washed out. Radar estimates indicate that 5 to 8 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sautee | $6,000 | Reports of trees down on Hwy 17 near Carr Creek. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sautee | $1,000 | A cooperative observer reported trees and power lines down. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sautee | - | Tree down along Panorama Dr South of Marci Lane. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sautee | - | Report of 4 to 5 trees down along Lynch Mountain Road between Highway 255 N and Hub Tatum Road. |
| March 2021 | Flash Flood | Sautee | - | The Emergency Manager reported flooding near the intersection of Lynch Mountain Road and Highway 255. Radar estimates indicate that 5 to 8 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Sautee | - | A clerk at the Sautee Inn Bed and Breakfast in Sautee reported dime to quarter sized hail. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Sautee | - | A COOP observer in Sautee reported quarter sized hail. |
| March 2010 | Hail | Sautee | - | A National Weather Service Cooperative observed reported penny-sized hail from the Sautee area. The hail lasted for up to five minutes. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Sautee | - | The public observed nickel-sized hail near Sautee. One tree was also blown down further south near Mossy Creek as this thunderstorm developed southward toward 845 pm EDT. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Sautee | - | The public reported dime size hail. |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sautee Valley Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
 | Nacoochee Valley | 2.1 miles | 1980 |
| John Stovall House | 6.2 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84001302 in Record Group 79. |
| White County | All 6 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.