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Photograph of Strachan House Garage
Photograph by Bubba73 (Jud McCranie), CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Strachan House Garage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Strachan House Garage, at 414-1/2 Butler Ave. on St. Simons Island in Glynn County, Georgia, is a two-story garage and residence which was built circa 1925.”

Wikipedia article Strachan House Garage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Glynn County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 414 1/2 Butler Ave., St. Simons Island, 31522
  • When was it listed? July 1997
  • Category. building
  • Census division. St. Simons
  • National Register reference number. 97000660 - 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Strachan House Garage between 1993 and 2015, burning about 14 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GLYNN-005
28 June 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 June 1996Natural1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 May 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 May 1997Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000660 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glynn CountyAll 18 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.