BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Oglethorpe County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Smith-Harris House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- Address. CR 207, Vesta, 30627
- When was it listed? July 1985
- Category. building
- Census division. Vesta-Enterprise
- National Register reference number. 85001620 - 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
176 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Smith-Harris House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 895 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 25 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 | 85 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-OGLETHORPE-008 |
| 28 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-OGLETHORPE-007 |
| 20 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-OGLETHORPE-006 |
| 18 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 3.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 24 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Smith-Harris House: 16 producers, 8 past producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paulding County Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Coggins Millstone Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Galaxy Satin Blue Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Bennie and Harvey Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Briarpatch Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Galaxy Blue Quarry | Granite | Producer | ||
| Grimes Brothers Quarry No. 2 | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Grimes Brothers Quarry No. 3 | Granite | Producer | ||
| Grimes Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Harmony Blue Mill | Granite | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vesta, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vesta | $10,000 | The Oglethorpe County Emergency Manager reported multiple trees and power lines blown down across the northeastern portion of the county from around the Vesta Baptist Church to Lexington. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Vesta | - | no account filed |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. L. Bridges Home Place | 3.8 miles | 1978 | |
| Faust Houses and Outbuildings | 4.8 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85001620 in Record Group 79. |
| Oglethorpe County | All 12 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.