Newborn 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 listing

Address. Roughly the entire city limits of Newborn City, Newborn, 30056
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. district
Census division. Mansfield
National Register reference number. 98000970 - 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Newborn Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 814 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	11
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-MORGAN-002
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
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-NEWTON-012
15 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-NEWTON-002
15 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newborn, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Newborn	$400,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that an EF1 tornado touched down in far southeast Newton county, approximately one mile west of the city of Newborn, then tracked across Morgan county before moving into western Greene county and finally lifting approximately six miles west of Greensboro. The tornado had a total path length near 25 miles, of which roughly two miles occurred within Newton county. \|The maximum path width was determined to be 1/2 mile with maximum winds estimated to be 105 mph. One home was destroyed, five others suffered major damage, and 10 others sustained minor damage as a result of the tornado. Hundreds of trees were also damaged or destroyed by the tornado. Most of the damage was in or around the city of Newborn. There were no fatalities or injuries within Newton county from this tornado.\|\|[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #13, County #1-3, EF1, Newton-Morgan-Greene, 2011:022].
August 2003	Lightning	Newborn	$25,000	The Newton county 911 center reported that a house was set on fire. Damage estimates were inconclusive.
September 2009	Flash Flood	Newborn	$1,000	The Newton County 911 Center reported flash flooding in the eastern portion of the county in association with flooding from Tanyard Branch Creek in Eastern Newton County. Water was standing on some roads in the area as well. Damage was confined to minor debris removal.
March 2005	Hail	Newborn	-	The public reported nickel-sized hail at a convenience store.

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

3 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
Burge Farm	2.2 miles	2000
Brick Store	6.4 miles	2009
Starrsville Historic District	6.5 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000970 in Record Group 79.
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.