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A. H. Stephens Memorial State Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Stephens State Park is a 1,177 acres (476 ha) Georgia state park located in Crawfordville. Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederate States of America, and a former Georgia governor.”

Wikipedia article A. H. Stephens State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Taliaferro County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Stephens, A. H., Memorial State Park - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. GA 22, N side, Crawfordville, 30631
  • When was it listed? June 1995
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Crawfordville
  • National Register reference number. 95000764 - 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of A. H. Stephens Memorial State Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 621 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 9 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 burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural14
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2001Smoking1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-TALIAFERRO-003
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use49 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019TALIAFERRO001
7 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Taliaferro County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of A. H. Stephens Memorial State Park: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Golucks-RhodesGoldPast ProducerVein
Hackney-LucasGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Taliaferro County

Storms near this property

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawfordville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCrawfordville$12,000The Taliaferro County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down along I-20 near mile marker 150.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCrawfordville$5,000Multiple trees down around A. H. Stephens State Park.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCrawfordville$3,000Several trees down along Interstate 20 and State Route 22.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCrawfordville$3,000The Georgia Department of Transportation reported trees blown down onto the roadway along Highway 22 near Carters Ford Road and along I-20 near mile marker 152.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCrawfordville$3,000The Taliaferro County 911 Center reported that three trees and two power lines were down near Crawfordville. Doppler radar data suggests that this occurred in the far southern part of the county from six to eight miles southwest of Crawfordville near the Hancock county line.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCrawfordville$2,000Trees were reported down in AH Stephens State Park as well as in Crawfordville with some trees across roads in the area.
June 2007HailCrawfordville$2,000The public reported golf ball-sized hail in the southwest part of Taliaferro county near the Hancock county line and southwest of Crawfordville.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCrawfordville$1,500The Taliaferro County 911 Center reported that several trees were downed, mainly in the eastern part of the county. Two trees were down on Interstate 20, blocking the lane at mile marker 147.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCrawfordville$1,000Tree down across Highway 22 near the Hancock county line.
November 2004Thunderstorm WindCrawfordville$250The Taliaferro County 911 Center reported that one tree was blown down.
June 2016HailCrawfordville-A Taliaferro County Sheriff's Deputy reported quarter-sized hail along I-20 near Crawfordville.
May 2003HailCrawfordville-The Taliaferro county 911 center reported penny-sized hail.
August 2003HailCrawfordville-The Taliaferro county 911 center reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Taliaferro 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

5 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Crawfordville Historic District0.7 miles2006
Liberty Hall1.0 miles1970
Taliaferro County Courthouse1.2 miles1980
Chapman-Steed House1.2 miles2002
Locust Grove Cemetery7.2 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000764 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Taliaferro CountyAll 7 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.