BlockFrom the record
One of 10 National Register listings published here for McIntosh County · listed in 1996 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hog Hammock Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- Address. E side of Sapelo Island, Hog Hammock, 31327
- When was it listed? September 1996
- Category. district
- Census division. Darien
- National Register reference number. 96000917 - 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
18 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Hog Hammock Historic District between 1993 and 2015, burning about 2,599 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge | BARNARD#1 |
| 29 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge | BLB-NO2 |
| 22 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge | BLB-NO1 |
| 20 August 2010 | Natural | 651 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-MCINTOSH-002 |
| 14 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge | GHOST |
| 11 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge | JOHNSON |
| 5 July 2014 | Natural | 242 acres | Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge | WILDERNESS 14 FIRE |
| 26 July 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge | GILJE |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sapelo Island Lighthouse | 1.2 miles | 1997 |
| Behavior Cemetery | 1.2 miles | 1996 | |
| First African Baptist Church at Raccoon Bluff | 3.1 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96000917 in Record Group 79. |
| McIntosh County | All 10 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.