BlockFrom the record
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Cobb County · listed in 1987 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Clarkdale Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- Address. Powder Springs-Austell Rd., Clarkdale, 30106
- When was it listed? December 1987
- Category. district
- Census division. Austell
- National Register reference number. 87002134 - 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
65 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Clarkdale Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 208 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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 | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 August 2007 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-PAULDING-002 |
| 31 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clarkdale Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lithia Springs Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkdale, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 hail. 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 2012 | Hail | Clarkdale | - | The public reported quarter sized hail from near Powder Springs to Pair Road. |
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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Israel Causey House | 2.5 miles | 1975 |
 | Butner-Mctyre General Store | 2.7 miles | 2006 |
 | Andrew J. Cheney House | 4.3 miles | 1979 |
 | Robert Mable House and Cemetery | 4.6 miles | 1988 |
| John W. Rice Summer Cottage | 5.6 miles | 1983 | |
 | Ruff's Mill and Concord Covered Bridge | 5.6 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87002134 in Record Group 79. |
| Cobb County | All 48 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.