Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
From the record
“The Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District is a rock and floral garden located south of the historic town of Roscoe in Coweta County, Georgia, and the adjacent Dunaway Gardens. Part of the district is located in Fulton County.”
Wikipedia article Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Coweta County · listed in 1996 · category: District.
National Register reference number.96001414- 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
166 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 656 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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
95
Arson/incendiarism
27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Smoking
6
Recreation and ceremony
5
Natural
3
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Roscoe, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
The Coweta County 911 center reported trees and a few power lines blown down from around Happy Valley Circle at Bantry Park Drive to Madras Parkway near Highway 29 and Poplar Road near Parks Drive.
The Coweta County 911 Center reported that from two to three dozen trees were down across the county, with at least a dozen trees down within the city of Newnan itself.
Flood waters from several creeks in central Coweta County affected a few athletic areas including the soccer fields off of Georgia Highway 34. The White Oak Creek flooded portions of the Summergrove Golf Course and the water reached the garage of a home on the east side of Newnan.
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.
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.
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