George R. Sims House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Coweta County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Sims, George R., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1851 Collinsworth Rd., Palmetto, 30268
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. district
Census division. Newnan
National Register reference number. 90001435 - 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

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of George R. Sims House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 786 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 36 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	114
Arson/incendiarism	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Recreation and ceremony	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	6
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5

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
4 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019FULTON SOUTH001
16 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COWETA-001
12 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-FAYETTE-001
1 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-COWETA-004
21 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-COWETA-007

Every fire recorded in Coweta County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of George R. Sims House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
A.J. Mcelwaney Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Tyrone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Tyrone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Coweta 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

2 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
	Oak Grove Plantation	4.7 miles	2001
	Dr. Robert L. and Sarah Alberta Smith House	7.9 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001435 in Record Group 79.
Coweta County	All 27 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.