Walter Jones Rock House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Walton County · listed in 1993 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Jones, Walter, Rock House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4435 GA 186 NE, Good Hope, 30641
When was it listed? November 1993
Category. building
Census division. Good Hope
National Register reference number. 93001190 - 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Walter Jones Rock House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 358 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 10 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	97
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Smoking	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MORGAN002
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WALTON-003
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-WALTON-002
20 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Walton 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 Walter Jones Rock House: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Thomas Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Walton County

Storms near this property

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Good Hope, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	$10,000	The Walton County Emergency Manager reported multiple trees and power lines down in the vicinity of Chandler Road. A barn was damaged and several homes had damage to roof shingles.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	$9,000	The Walton County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the county from around Good Hope to northwest of Monroe.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	$1,500	The public reported several trees down in the Good Hope area.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	$1,000	Em reports tree down near good hope at jacks creek rd nw and old good hope rd.
February 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	$1,000	Tree down along Nunnally Shoals Rd near Old Monroe Madison Hwy.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	$1,000	Tree down at Laboon Rd and Lavista Drive .
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	$1,000	Tree down along N highway 83 and Old Good Hope Rd.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	$1,000	Report of tree down blocking roadway at Old Monroe Madison Hwy and Queens Cemetery Rd.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	$1,000	Emergency Manager reported a tree down in road along 700 block of Brookshire Ct.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	$1,000	Report of tree down across road near the intersection GA-83 and Moina Michael Rd.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	-	Tree down on residence and vehicle at Navaho Trail and ga83.
August 2023	Flash Flood	Good Hope	-	The Emergency Manager relayed a report of flooding of the roadway at several points along Highway 83 near and southeast of Good Hope. Radar estimates indicate that between 6 and 7 inches of rain occurred over the northern portion of Morgan county, resulting in the flash flooding.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Good Hope	-	Report of a tree and power lines down at Jacks Creek Rd and Old Good Hope Rd.
February 2020	Flash Flood	Good Hope	-	The Emergency Manager reported Marion Ivie Road was closed due to flooding. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 5 inches of rain occurred, falling on already wet soils and producing flash flooding.
May 2008	Hail	Good Hope	-	The public observed quarter-sized hail for up to 10 minutes in the Good Hope area of eastern Walton county.
February 2000	Hail	Good Hope	-	Walton county 911 reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Walton 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Casulon Plantation	1.3 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001190 in Record Group 79.
Walton County	All 25 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.