Idlewilde

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Idlewilde is a historic boarding house site built between 1907 and 1910 at what is now the Indian Springs State Park in Butts County, Georgia. Two granddaughters of Robert Grier, a famous 19th century astronomer and author of the Grier Almanac, built Idlewilde and its gardens.”
Wikipedia article Idlewilde (Indian Springs, Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Butts County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lake Clark Rd., Indian Springs State Park, Indian Springs, 30216
When was it listed? March 1999
Category. building
Census division. Jackson
National Register reference number. 99000293 - 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

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Idlewilde between 1992 and 2020, burning about 941 acres in total. 11 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	138
Railroad operations and maintenance	22
Smoking	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	8

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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MONROE-013
2 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	21 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Butts 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 Idlewilde: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar. 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
	Westbrooks Prospect	Mica, Feldspar	Prospect

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
Indian Springs Hotel	0.2 miles	1973
Butts County Courthouse	4.1 miles	1980
J. R. Carmichael House	4.3 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000293 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butts County	All 4 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.