BlockFrom the record
One of 141 National Register listings published here for Muscogee County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Forston House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The listing
- Address. 1100 Fortson Rd., Fortson, 31808
- When was it listed? June 1999
- Category. building
- Census division. Columbus North
- National Register reference number. 99000657 - 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
159 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Forston House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 731 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 66 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 | 67 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 66 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-HARRIS-005 |
| 6 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 10.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2010 | Smoking | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-HARRIS-007 |
| 12 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-HARRIS-003 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Forston House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barin Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Columbus Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fortson, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fortson | $3,000 | The Muscogee County 911 center reported a few trees blown down from around Veterans Parkway and Grey Rock Road to around Milgen Road and Flat Rock Road. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Cotton Gin Building | 4.6 miles | 1984 | |
| Green Island Ranch | 5.9 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99000657 in Record Group 79. |
| Muscogee County | All 141 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.
- 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.