Morgan Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Morgan Farm, also known as Nathan Morgan Home Place, is a historic rural farmstead near Smithville in Sumter County, Georgia, U.S.. It was founded by Nathan Morgan, an African-American farmer, and represents the rare ascendence from slavery to property ownership.”
Wikipedia article Morgan Farm (Sumter County, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Sumter County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 770 Old Dawson Rd., Smithville, 31787
When was it listed? February 1998
Category. district
Census division. Americus
National Register reference number. 98000145 - 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

258 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Morgan Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 805 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 13 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	133
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Smoking	14
Natural	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Arson/incendiarism	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Recreation and ceremony	6

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 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021SUMTER002
9 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-SUMTER-002
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SUMTER-010
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021SUMTER001
30 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-SUMTER-021
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SUMTER017
28 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Morgan Farm: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Anthony Dairy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Sumter 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
Newman McBain House	3.7 miles	1980
Webb Family Farm	4.0 miles	1985
Liberty Hall	5.5 miles	1980
Lustron House at 547 Oak Avenue	5.5 miles	1996
Third District A & M School-Georgia Southwestern College Historic District	5.7 miles	2007
Americus Historic District	5.7 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000145 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sumter County	All 16 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.