Miller Brothers Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Miller Brothers Farm, also called Kensington and Big House is a Classical Revival style house located in Kensington, Georgia along State Route 912. Built in 1890 as a hotel, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Miller Brothers Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Walker County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. GA 912, Kensington, 30707
When was it listed? August 1987
Category. building
Census division. Kensington
National Register reference number. 87001332 - 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Miller Brothers Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 886 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 66 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	124
Arson/incendiarism	66
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2019	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WALKER002
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	114 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	24 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Miller Brothers Farm: 12 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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	Recorded
Horine Development Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Patton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Road Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Road Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cassandra Area	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Estelle Mining Comp	Iron	Past Producer
Glenn Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Kensington Iron and Coal Co. Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Kensington Iron and Coal Co. Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Kensington Iron and Coal Co. Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kensington, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2002: 3 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
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kensington	$7,000	An amateur radio operator reported that a tin roof was blown off a barn and several trees were uprooted.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Kensington	$2,000	The Walker county Emergency Management Director reported that a small metal shed was blown down, a few shingles were blown off roofs, and a few trees were blown down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kensington	$500	A road was blocked due to downed trees from thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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

5 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
McLemore Cove Historic District	3.4 miles	1994
Marsh-Warthen House	7.0 miles	2005
Chickamauga Lodge No. 221, Free and Accepted Masons, Prince Hall Affiliate	7.0 miles	2006
Chattooga Academy	7.0 miles	1980
Walker County Courthouse	7.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001332 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Walker County	All 16 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.