BlockFrom the record
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1989 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Union Manufacturing Company
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 20 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 500 Sibley Ave., Union Point, 30669
- When was it listed? February 1989
- Category. district
- Census division. Union Point
- National Register reference number. 89000026 - 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
199 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Union Manufacturing Company between 1992 and 2019, burning about 474 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 27 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 | 80 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Smoking | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Smoking | 8.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-GREENE-007 |
| 2 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Union Manufacturing Company: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Gold, Mica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell Hill Prospect | Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Siloam Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Sunshine Mine | Mica | Past Producer | ||
| W. H. Murden Property | Manganese | Past Producer | Residual |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Point Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1991 | |
| Peter W. Printup Plantation | 1.2 miles | 1985 | |
 | Jefferson Hall | 2.1 miles | 1989 |
| Woodville Baptist Church and School | 4.3 miles | 1999 | |
 | Bethesda Baptist Church and Cemetery | 4.5 miles | 1998 |
 | Siloam Historic District | 5.4 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89000026 in Record Group 79. |
| Greene County | All 24 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.