Joseph Darling House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Darling, Joseph, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3066 Dennis Rd., Martinez, 30907
When was it listed? April 1991
Category. building
Census division. Augusta
National Register reference number. 91000479 - 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Joseph Darling House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 389 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 34 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	47
Arson/incendiarism	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-016
7 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COLUMBIA-004
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-023
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Joseph Darling House: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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	Recorded
Augusta Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Barton Chaple Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
No. 2 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
North Augusta Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Unidentified Mine	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary Kaolin

Every working recorded in Richmond 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
Fruitlands	2.3 miles	1979
Augusta Canal Industrial District	2.6 miles	1971
Sands Hill Historic District	3.5 miles	1997
Dr. Asbury and Martha Hull House	3.5 miles	2018
Weiss-Steinburg-Bush House	3.7 miles	2019
Stephen Vincent Benet House	3.9 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000479 in Record Group 79.
Richmond County	All 51 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.