Starrsville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jct. GA 213, Old Starsville and Dixie Rds., Starrsville, 30014
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. district
Census division. Mansfield
National Register reference number. 98000715 - 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

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Starrsville Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 622 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 34 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	118
Arson/incendiarism	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	13
Smoking	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	4

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
30 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-NEWTON-003
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-NEWTON-001
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Starrsville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrsville	$6,000	The Newton County 911 center reported trees blown down around County Road 213 and Alcovy Reserve Way and power lines blown down on Pine Street in Mansfield.
January 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrsville	$1,000	The Newton County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down near the intersection of East End Road and Highway 36.
December 2014	Hail	Starrsville	-	Employees of Hendersons Grocery and Shell Station at State Highway 36 and Henderson Mill/Flat Shoals Road reported quarter-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Covington Historic District	5.1 miles	1998
Burge Farm	5.2 miles	2000
Floyd Street Historic District	5.3 miles	1974
Newton County Courthouse	5.5 miles	1980
Porterdale Historic District	5.7 miles	2001
Covington Mills and Mill Village Historic District	5.7 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000715 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 13 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.