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Union Point Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Union Point Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 469 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 28 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 burning79
Arson/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Smoking23
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural13
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Smoking8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Debris and open burning2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GREENE-007

Every fire recorded in Greene 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 Union Point Historic District: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mitchell Hill ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Sunshine MineMicaPast Producer
W. H. Murden PropertyManganesePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Greene 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Union Manufacturing Company0.2 miles1989
Peter W. Printup Plantation1.2 miles1985
Jefferson Hall2.2 miles1989
Woodville Baptist Church and School4.0 miles1999
Bethesda Baptist Church and Cemetery4.4 miles1998
Siloam Historic District5.6 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90002100 in Record Group 79.
Greene CountyAll 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.