Dickey-Birdsong Plantation

Built in 1912 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Birdsong Nature Center, formerly the Dickey-Birdsong Plantation, is a 565-acre (229 ha) historic district property. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Birdsong Nature Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Grady County · listed in 1995 · category: District · built in 1912, Neoclassical architecture.

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

The listing

Listed as. Dickey--Birdsong Plantation - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Meridian Rd., off GA 93 W of Beachton, Beachton, 31792
When was it listed? June 1995
Category. district
Census division. Southeast Grady
When was it built? 1912
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 95000741 - 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Dickey-Birdsong Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 427 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GRADY-014
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GRADY-013
6 June 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 1996	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 June 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beachton, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2008	Flash Flood	Beachton	1 killed, $8,500,000	Many roads and low lying areas were flooded. More than 700 miles of county roads were were undermined by the flood waters. A teenage boy drowned when he fell into rushing flood waters of an overflowing lake in Deer Lake subdivision. A man was seriously injured trying to save the boy. Numerous homes in Cairo were flooded, with some inundated by water as high as four feet. Rainfall amounts ranged from ten to twenty inches throughout the county.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Beachton	$3,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in the Beachton area.
July 2025	Hail	Beachton	-	Nickel to quarter size hail fell and lasted several minutes.
November 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Beachton	-	A tree was blown down across Highway 319 near Mile Marker 5.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Beachton	-	Trees were blown down along Highway 93 south of the Ochlockonee River.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Beachton	-	A tree was blown down along Highway 319 near mile marker 6.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Beachton	-	A tree was blown down in the Beachton area.
May 2005	Hail	Beachton	-	Penny size hail reported by the public on U.S. Highway 319.
November 1997	Hail	Beachton	-	Dime size hail in south central Grady county just north of Beachton.
April 2021	Hail	Beachton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grady 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

4 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
Susina Plantation	2.2 miles	1970
Evergreen Congregational Church and School	4.0 miles	2002
Sasser Farm	6.7 miles	1983
Ochlocknee Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery	7.3 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000741 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grady County	All 8 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.