Warthen Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Warthen Historic District is a 245 acres (99 ha) historic district in Warthen, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The listing included 39 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites.”
Wikipedia article Warthen Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jct. of GA 15, GA 102, Warthen St., Old Sadersville-Sparta and Walker Dairy Rds., Warthen, 31094
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. district
Census division. Warthen
National Register reference number. 97000755 - 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

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Warthen Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,033 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 22 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	109
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Natural	16
Smoking	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Smoking	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-WASHINGTON-016
25 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-WASHINGTON-017
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WASHINGTON-023

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Warthen Historic District: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Irwin Mine	Kaolin	Producer
	Roughton Mine	Kaolin	Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warthen, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Warthen	$7,000	The public reported that many trees and power lines were down across the county. One tree was down on a vehicle. Power outages were noted throughout much of the county. The wind damage was largely caused by an outflow boundary as an area of thunderstorms moved into the county from the north.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Warthen	$500	The public reported several trees blown down.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Warthen	$250	Personnel at the Warthen Post Office reported that a few tree limbs were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Warthen	$250	The Washington county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down.
April 2009	Hail	Warthen	-	The public observed penny-sized hail in the far northern part of the county in the Hamburg State Park area.
June 2008	Hail	Warthen	-	The Washington County Sheriff's Department observed nickel-sized hail around Warthen.
May 2006	Hail	Warthen	-	Personnel at the Warthen Post Office observed penny-sized hail.
May 2005	Hail	Warthen	-	The Washington County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.
May 2002	Hail	Warthen	-	The public reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
	Sandersville High School	7.7 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000755 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 20 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.