John Frank Mathews Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Talbot County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Mathews, John Frank, Plantation - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. US 80 at George Smith Rd., Prattsburg, 31827
When was it listed? December 1986
Category. district
Census division. Talbotton
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 86003456 - 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of John Frank Mathews Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 721 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 34 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	65
Arson/incendiarism	34
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TAYLOR-009
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TAYLOR-010
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2001	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-TAYLOR-001

Every fire recorded in Talbot County

Storms near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prattsburg, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 tornado. 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
April 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Prattsburg	$7,000	A National Weather Service survey team found a long-track tornado path across southeast Talbot County that briefly crossed into Taylor County before crossing back into Talbot County and ending. The entire path length was nearly 22 miles and the maximum path width was 700 yards. The tornado crossed back into Talbot County and continued northeast for a half mile as an EF-0 with maximum wind speed around 80 MPH and a maximum width around 100 yards causing mainly minor damage to softwood trees before ending. No injuries were reported. [04/27/17: Tornado #1/1, County #3/3, EF-0, Talbot, Taylor, Talbot, 2017:067].

Every storm recorded in Talbot 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
	Lockhart-Cosby Plantation	4.7 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003456 in Record Group 79.
Talbot 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.
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.