Brown House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Brown House in McDonough, Georgia, at 71 Macon Street, was built in 1826. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”
Wikipedia article Brown House (McDonough, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 1991 · 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. 71 Macon St., McDonough, 30253
When was it listed? August 1991
Category. building
Census division. McDonough
National Register reference number. 91000908 - 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Brown House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 575 acres in total. 4 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	93
Arson/incendiarism	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	33
Smoking	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	58 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HENRY-006
21 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HENRY-005

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brown House: 1 past producer. 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
	Walker Property	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McDonough, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McDonough	$300	Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree east of Hampton and knocked power lines down in Hampton and McDonough.
April 1995	Hail	McDonough	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Globe Hotel	0.2 miles	1985
Henry County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1980
James and Bertha Hooten House	0.4 miles	2009
McDonough Historic District	0.4 miles	2007
Lawrenceville Street Historic District	0.5 miles	2009
Locust Grove Institute Academic Building	6.7 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000908 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry County	All 13 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.