Gulley-Gurley Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Hart County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Gulley--Gurley Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1389 Lou Gurley Road, Bowersville, 30516
When was it listed? April 1997
Category. building
Census division. Bowersville
National Register reference number. 97000334 - 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Gulley-Gurley Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 491 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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	153
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HART001
5 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019FRANKLIN001
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Gulley-Gurley Farm: 11 past producers, 6 occurrences, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hays Property	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Unknown, Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Unknown, Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Unknown/Bowers Properties	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Winter Property	Gold	Prospect	Placer
Banister Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Garner Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Green Rose Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Hartwell Quarry & Mill	Mica	Plant	1919
Highway Deposits	Mica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this property

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowersville, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	$50,000	Emergency manager and utility company reported multiple trees and power lines blown down throughout Hart County. A chicken house was also destroyed.
June 2001	Lightning	Bowersville	$15,000	Lightning traveled down two trees and killed 29 cows. Mother cows were laying with their legs sticking straight up in the air.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	$1,000	Trees and powerlines were blown down.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	County comms reported numerous trees blown down across the northern part of the county.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	County comms reported numerous trees and some power lines blown down across Hart County.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	County comms reported several trees blown down in the Bowersville area.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	County comms reported trees blown down along Lankford Rd.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	County comms reported a few trees and large limbs blown down around Bowersvile.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	FD reported multiple trees blown down along Highway 17 near Bowersville.
January 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	Multiple trees were blown down across Hart County.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	Multiple trees were blown down across the county.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	A tree was blown down in the Bowersville area. Another tree was blown down in the Goldmine area with a third blown down along highway 172 south of Hartwell.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down, along with several power poles.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	Some trees were blown down.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down.
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bowersville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Bowersville Historic District	3.2 miles	1985
Franklin Light and Power Company Steam Generating Station	5.9 miles	1986
McCurry-Kidd House	6.2 miles	1986
Roscoe Conklin Linder House	6.3 miles	1986
Allie M. Best House	6.3 miles	1986
Adams-Matheson House	6.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000334 in Record Group 79.
Hart County	All 36 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.