Hawkes Children's Library of West Point

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Hawkes Children's Library in West Point, Georgia was built in 1922. It is one of the Hawkes Children's Library buildings inspired and funded with support from Albert King Hawkes, who funded six children's libraries in rural towns throughout Georgia.”
Wikipedia article Hawkes Children's Library of West Point, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Troup County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 100 W. 8th St., West Point, 31833
When was it listed? December 1990
Category. building
Census division. West Point
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90001990 - 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Hawkes Children's Library of West Point between 1992 and 2017, burning about 545 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 32 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	70
Arson/incendiarism	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	6
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-HARRIS-002
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TROUP-004

Every fire recorded in Troup 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 Hawkes Children's Library of West Point: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
	Rockford Placer	Gold	Past Producer
	Rockford Placer	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Troup 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Riverside Club-Magnolia Club	under 500 feet	2015
West Point Commercial Historic District	0.2 miles	2006
West Point Freight Depot	0.2 miles	2005
Westside Historic District	0.4 miles	2011
West Point Public School	0.5 miles	1999
Eastside Historic District	0.5 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001990 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Troup County	All 35 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.