Mount Pleasant Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Banks County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jct. of GA 51 and GA 184, Carnesville, 30547
When was it listed? November 1996
Category. district
Also known as. Old Federal Road in Georgia's Banks and Franklin Counties MPS
Census division. Homer
National Register reference number. 96001306 - 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 340 acres in total. 2 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	66
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN005
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-008
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	44 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BANKS-002
26 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BANKS-001

Every fire recorded in Banks 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 Mount Pleasant Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Homer Plant No. 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Banks 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
William Chambers House	0.9 miles	1996
Nails Creek Historic District	1.9 miles	1996
Banks County Jail	3.8 miles	1982
Homer Historic District (Boundary Increase)	4.1 miles	1993
Banks County Courthouse	4.2 miles	1980
Homer Historic District	4.3 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001306 in Record Group 79.
Banks 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.
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.