BlockFrom the record
One of 37 National Register listings published here for Habersham County · listed in 1990 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Glen-Ella Springs Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- Address. SW of Tallulah Falls on Co. Rd. 218, Turnerville, 30523
- When was it listed? January 1990
- Category. district
- Census division. Turnerville
- National Register reference number. 89002270 - 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
133 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Glen-Ella Springs Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 704 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 18 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 | 73 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 1999 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | ANN GAP |
| 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 |
| 30 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-HABERSHAM-001 |
| 28 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Glen-Ella Springs Hotel: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Platinum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Habersham County Occurrences | Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Platinum | Occurrence | PLACER | |
| Bright Evans Property | Gold | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this property
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turnerville, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | Hail | Turnerville | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turnerville | - | County comms reported multiple trees blown down in northern Habersham County. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turnerville | - | Multiple trees and large limbs were blown down in the Turnerville area. Also, the top of a chimney was blown off a home. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Turnerville | - | Heavy rain developed well ahead of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay, resulting in flash flooding over the north-central part of the county. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Turnerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Turnerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Turnerville | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Turnerville | - | no account filed |
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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Tallulah Falls School | 3.2 miles | 1992 |
| Acoa | 4.9 miles | 1982 | |
| Woodlands and Blythewood | 5.6 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89002270 in Record Group 79. |
| Habersham County | All 37 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.