John O'Flaherty House

Built in 1896. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The John O'Flaherty House, also known as The Rock House, at 1000 Oconee Road in Buckhead, Morgan County, Georgia, was built in 1896. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”
Wikipedia article John O'Flaherty House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1896.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. O'Flaherty, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1000 Oconee Rd., Buckhead, 30625
When was it listed? August 1991
Category. building
Census division. Buckhead
When was it built? 1896
National Register reference number. 91001155 - 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of John O'Flaherty House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 449 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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	41
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
28 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	PARK AND TROT
9 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MORGAN-002
26 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-MORGAN-002
2 August 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-GREENE-003
8 July 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-MORGAN-001
5 July 2000	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MORGAN-001

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckhead, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhead	4 hurt, $325,000	Severe thunderstorm winds damaged farm buildings and knocked down several trees in the east and south part of Madison county. In the Godfrey community, winds damaged as many as 9 chicken houses, 5 of which were almost totally destroyed. Six people were trapped in the collapsed buildings and four were injured.
August 1999	Lightning	Buckhead	$10,000	Ten cows were killed when struck by lightning while they were huddled underneath a tree.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhead	$7,000	The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported that a microburst or downburst associated with a small, yet strong thunderstorm in the area, blew down or damaged from 10 to 20 large oak trees, rolled a tin roof up on a barn, and blew some shingles off a nearby home.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhead	$5,000	Several large trees and power lines were downed by thunder- storm winds.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhead	$4,000	The Morgan County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down in the Buckhead area.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhead	$2,000	The Morgan County 911 Center reported that a number of trees were down in the far southeast part of the county, just southwest of Buckhead, blocking Seven Islands Road. Pea-sized hail was also observed in the area.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhead	$1,000	Tree down at the intersection of apalachee river road and whispering lakes drive.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhead	$1,000	Emergency manager reported a tree down on the 1400 block of Oconee Rd.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhead	$1,000	The Morgan County 911 Center reported four trees down in the Buckhead area.
June 2010	Hail	Buckhead	-	The Morgan County 911 Center relayed a report of penny-sized hail.
September 2010	Hail	Buckhead	-	The Morgan County Emergency Management Director relayed a report of penny-sized hail from the Buckhead community.
April 2008	Hail	Buckhead	-	The Morgan County 911 Center relayed a report of nickel-sized hail from the Buckhead area.
June 2007	Hail	Buckhead	-	The Morgan County 911 Center reported quarter-sized hail.
October 2006	Hail	Buckhead	-	The public reported nickel-sized hail in the Rock Eagle/Lake Oconee area in the far southeast part of the county.
July 2004	Hail	Buckhead	-	The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Buckhead Historic District	0.1 miles	2002
Zachry-Kingston House	4.3 miles	1987
Wilson-Finney-Land House	5.4 miles	2004
Madison Historic District	6.6 miles	1974
Madison Historic District (Boundary Increase)	6.7 miles	1990
Bonar Hall	7.1 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001155 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morgan County	All 15 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.
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.