Olgetree Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Habersham County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jct. of Pea Ridge Rd. and Paradise Park Rd., View, 30531
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. district
Census division. Cornelia
National Register reference number. 97000753 - 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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Olgetree Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 248 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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	171
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3

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
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BANKS-001
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HABERSHAM-013
10 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WHITE-001
9 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HABERSHAM-012
7 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HABERSHAM-011

Every fire recorded in Habersham County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Olgetree Farm: 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Piedmont College Farm	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Habersham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Habersham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Stamborough Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Chatman Estate	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Crow (L.W. Bowen) Mine	Gold	Prospect	Placer, Some Vein Prospecting Also
Crow Heirs Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Elrod, T.	Gold	Prospect	Placer
J. Loudermilk (J. Perkins)	Gold	Prospect	Placer, Some Vein Prospecting Also

Every working recorded in Habersham 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
Demorest Commercial Historic District	3.4 miles	1989
Pyle-Davis House	3.5 miles	2003
Demorest Women's Club	3.6 miles	2008
Irvin General Merchandise Store	4.4 miles	1984
Cornelia Commercial Historic District	4.4 miles	2022
Loudermilk Boarding House	4.5 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000753 in Record Group 79.
Habersham County	All 37 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.