Carmel Rural Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Meriwether County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. E of GA 85. Roughly bounded by Winky Branch, Gable and Sullivan Mill Rds., Flint R., and White Oak Cr., Alvaton, 30218
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. district
Census division. Gay
National Register reference number. 97000752 - 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Carmel Rural Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,098 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 23 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	115
Arson/incendiarism	23
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	8
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
27 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SPALDING002
24 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019PIKE001
19 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alvaton, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2011	Tornado (EF2)	Alvaton	$250,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that a second tornado touched down in northeast Meriwether county simultaneously while another EF2 tornado was tracking across the southern part of the county. Although this tornado was only EF2 strength during its small track across northeast Meriwether county, it strengthened to an EF3 rating shortly after entering Spalding county and continued at an EF3 rating until it just moved across the Henry county line near the ends of its track. The tornado touched down just south of Alvaton and just south of the intersection of Georgia Highways 74 and 362, then tracked northeast across western and northern Spalding county and into extreme southern Henry county before lifting. The tornado resulted in two deaths in western Spalding county near the town of Birdie. The tornado had a total path length of near 22 miles, with approximately 5.5 miles of this within northeast Meriwether county. The maximum path width was 1/2 mile with maximum winds estimated to be 140 mph. Damage in Meriwether county was confined primarily to several hundred downed trees, some power lines, and minor structural damage to outbuildings. There were no fatalities or injuries within Meriwether county from this tornado.\|\|[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #11, County #1-3, EF3, Meriwether-Spalding-Henry, 2011:020].
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvaton	$1,000	The Meriwether County 911 Center reported that four trees were down between Alvaton and Wooster involving Strickland, Alvaton, and Rocky Mountain Roads.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvaton	$1,000	no account filed
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvaton	$500	The Meriwether County 911 center reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Highway 85 and Callaway Road.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvaton	$500	The Meriwether county sheriff reported that two trees were blown down on a road.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Alvaton	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew trees down on power lines, resulting in power outages.

Every storm recorded in Meriwether 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	White Oak Creek Covered Bridge	1.7 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000752 in Record Group 79.
Meriwether County	All 24 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.
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.