Martha Poe Dogtrot House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Martha Poe Dogtrot House, also known as Mayhar Plantation Stage Stop, in Thomas County, Georgia near Metcalf, Georgia, was built c.1850-1876. It is a dog trot house which is believed to have served as a stage stop.”
Wikipedia article Martha Poe Dogtrot House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Thomas County · listed in 1998 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Poe, Martha, Dogtrot House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 0.75 W of jct of Twelve Mile Post Rd. and GA 19, Metcalf, 31626
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. building
Census division. Boston
National Register reference number. 98000569 - 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Martha Poe Dogtrot House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 447 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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	30
Arson/incendiarism	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
26 September 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(33) HWY 19 FIRE
21 July 2007	Natural	100 acres	Florida Forest Service	(33) SOUTH GILLY RD
2 June 2011	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-THOMAS-106
18 June 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 June 1993	Debris and open burning	7.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 May 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 May 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(33) GILLEY RD FIRE
7 May 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(33) GA LINE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Storms near this property

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Metcalf, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Metcalf	$5,000	Numerous trees were blown down near the intersection of Metcalf Road and Horne Cemetery Road. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
February 1998	Lightning	Metcalf	$5,000	Lightning struk a mobile home igniting several small fires inside the home. An adjoining word porch was set ablaze as the current blasted a twelve-inch hole in the floor.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Metcalf	$2,000	A few trees and power lines down. Reported by the Thomas County Sheriff.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Metcalf	$1,000	A single tree was blown down at the intersection of U.S Highway 19 and Glasgow Road with no other damage reported in the county.
February 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Metcalf	$1,000	Two trees were blown down in the southern part of the county. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Metcalf	-	Twelve Mile Post Road going west between Highway 19 and the Florida state line had water over the road.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Metcalf	-	Highway 19 and New Hope Road had all lanes flooded.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Metcalf	-	There were a few reports of trees and power lines down in Thomas county.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Metcalf	-	A tree was blown down onto Magnolia Drive.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Metcalf	-	Multiple trees were blown down in southern Thomas county south of Thomasville.
April 2012	Hail	Metcalf	-	Quarter sized hail was reported at the intersection of Highway 19 and New Hope Road.
April 2021	Hail	Metcalf	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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

2 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
	Mill Creek Plantation	6.9 miles	1997
	Boston Historic District	7.6 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000569 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Thomas County	All 44 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.