Tybee Island Back River Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Chatham County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Along Chatham Ave., from Tybee River to Venetian Dr., Tybee Island, 31328
When was it listed? August 1999
Category. district
Census division. Tybee Island-Wilmington Island
National Register reference number. 99000928 - 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

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tybee Island Back River Historic District between 1995 and 2017, burning about 108 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3

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
24 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Fort Pulaski National Monument	TALLEY
20 July 2009	Natural	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 1996	Recreation and ceremony	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 April 2000	Recreation and ceremony	68 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2000-CHATHAM-036
4 March 2017	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-009
16 October 2012	Natural	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-CHATHAM-004

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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 Tybee Island Back River Historic District: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. 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
	Savannah Beach Placer	Titanium	Occurrence	Beach Placer

Every working recorded in Chatham 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
Sea View Apartments	under 500 feet	2003
Bordley Cottage-Beach View House	0.1 miles	2014
Curry-Miller-Byrd Cottage	0.2 miles	2021
Carbo House, The	0.3 miles	2010
J. Herbert and Julia Johnson Raised Tybee Cottage	0.4 miles	2008
James and Odessa Rourke Jr. Raised Tybee Cottage	0.4 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000928 in Record Group 79.
Chatham County	All 80 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.