Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“The Sautee Valley Historic District comprises the southern half of the Sautee Valley, near Sautee, Georgia. Lynch Mountain is to the southeast, Grimes Nose is to the northwest, and the Nacoochee Valley is to the southwest.”
Wikipedia article Sautee Valley Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for White County · listed in 1986 · category: District.
National Register reference number.86002742- 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
142 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Sautee Valley Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 652 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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
96
Arson/incendiarism
17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
29 workings within 5 miles of Sautee Valley Historic District: 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.
Regional 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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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