Tallulah Falls Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Rabun County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 441, Tallulah Falls, 30573
When was it listed? May 1988
Category. building
Census division. Tiger
National Register reference number. 88000607 - 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Tallulah Falls Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 776 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 15 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	55
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	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
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-RABUN-001
23 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	COMMUNITY LANE
23 September 1999	Natural	3.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	Y CAMP
10 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	GASTON
30 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HABERSHAM-001
24 July 2008	Natural	92 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	KING
24 July 2001	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-HABERSHAM-001

Every fire recorded in Rabun County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tallulah Falls Depot: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Marble, Dimension. 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
	Henckel Mine	Gold	Past Producer
	Marble Prospect	Marble, Dimension	Prospect

Every working recorded in Rabun 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
	Pine Tree Tea Room	3.4 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000607 in Record Group 79.
Rabun County	All 7 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.