Charlton County, Georgia

69 topographic sheets cover 28 settlements here, and 4 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

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From the record

4 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Georgia within the United States

Charlton County within Georgia

What the record shows

335 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
4 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 4 buildings.
The Geographic Names Information System records 28 populated places in this county; 28 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Property	Type	Listed	Reference
Charlton County Courthouse	building	1980	80000987
Floyds Island Hammock	building	2000	00000389
John M. Hopkins Cabin	building	1983	83000186
William Mizell Sr. House	building	1997	97001089

Photographs from libraries nationwide

3 shown

Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 3 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.

Charlton Motel, U.S. Highway I-301 and 23... Folkston, Georgia, Boston Public Library - undated — Charlton Motel, U.S. Highway I-301 and 23... Folkston, Georgia. Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.

Harold's Souvenirs, Boston Public Library - undated — Harold's Souvenirs. Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.

The county from the air

46 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 1,609 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 46 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-10-12, scale 1:59000 — 1950-10-12, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-01-16, scale 1:59000 — 1951-01-16, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-03-08, scale 1:23600 — 1952-03-08, scale 1:23600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-03-08, scale 1:28400 — 1952-03-08, scale 1:28400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-01-17, scale 1:60000 — 1956-01-17, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1963-03-08, scale 1:24000 — 1963-03-08, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1965-03-25, scale 1:24000 — 1965-03-25, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-03-06, scale 1:24000 — 1966-03-06, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-05-01, scale 1:40000 — 1968-05-01, scale 1:40000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-01-08, scale 1:20500 — 1970-01-08, scale 1:20500. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-03-01, scale 1:76000 — 1973-03-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-02-01, scale 1:15000 — 1975-02-01, scale 1:15000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-11-13, scale 1:80000 — 1977-11-13, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-03-19, scale 1:80000 — 1979-03-19, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

8 stations, 2 gages

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

SAINT GEORGE 1905 to 1929, hottest 42.2 C, coldest -12.2 C
FOLKSTON 9 SW 1945 to 2026, hottest 41.1 C, coldest -15.0 C
FOLKSTON 3 SW 1948 to 2010, hottest 35.6 C, coldest 16.1 C
FARGO 17 NE 1982 to 2026, hottest 40.6 C, coldest -17.8 C
JONES ISLAND GEORGIA 1999 to 2020, hottest 44.4 C, coldest -8.3 C
FOLKSTON 1.3 SSW 2009 to 2023
FOLKSTON 6.3 SW 2013 to 2014
HOMELAND 0.7 N 2017 to 2023

NORTH FORK SUWANNEE RIVER AT SILL NEAR FARGO GA 1998 to 2003
SUWANNEE RIVER AT SILL NEAR FARGO, GA 1999 to 2003

The 1950 census, district by district

9 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

24-1Militia District 32, Folkston city - That part east of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
24-2Folkston city - That part west of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
24-3Homeland town
24-4Militia District 32, Folkston - That part outside Folkston city and Homeland town
24-5Militia District 959, St. George
24-6Militia District 1142, Traders Hill
24-7Militia District 1193, Uptonville
24-8Militia District 1220, Moniac
24-9Militia District 1354, Winokur

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

1,568 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 1,568 of them, burning about 257,568 acres. 507 started naturally and 289 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	523
Natural	507
Arson/incendiarism	289
Equipment and vehicle use	100
Railroad operations and maintenance	63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Recreation and ceremony	16
Smoking	12

The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
16 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	191,474 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	BIG TURNAROUND
15 June 1998	Arson/incendiarism	16,100 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY1998-CHARLTON-049
11 April 1999	Debris and open burning	14,128 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	HICKORY IS
2 March 2000	Debris and open burning	7,800 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	GA-2
19 May 2001	Natural	6,960 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	CRAVENS IS
14 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,420 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CHARLTON-092
5 May 2007	Natural	1,954 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	FLOYDS ISLAND PRAIRIE
14 June 2011	Debris and open burning	1,400 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CHARLTON-101

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1961 to 2026

60 of 215 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 215 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 3 injuries and about $694,500 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event	Reports
Thunderstorm Wind	119
Hail	50
Heavy Rain	19
Tornado	11
Flash Flood	5
Funnel Cloud	3
Wildfire	2
Lightning	2
Flood	2
Winter Storm	2

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Homeland	2 hurt	A tree fell on a trailer home and injured two residents inside. The victims were taken to the local hospital. The extent of their injuries was unknown.
March 1961	Tornado (F1)	not stated	1 hurt	no account filed
October 1996	Flash Flood	Folkston	$160,000	no account filed
February 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$135,000	Thunderstorm winds severly damaged numerous homes and mobile homes. Barns and other buildings were also destroyed. Trees and power lines were blown onto roadways.
July 2019	Lightning	Folkston	$100,000	A lightning strike caused a structure fire to the Badcock Home Furniture storm in Folkston near 1st and Elm Streets. The structure was a total loss. A home nearby was also struck by lightning, but did not catch fire. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the even tin Storm Data.
December 2002	Tornado (F1)	Winokur	$100,000	Structural damage to buildings in Homeland, Camp Pickney and Winokur. Shop roof off in Winokur. Numerous trees down with a .5 mile damage path.
December 2002	Tornado (F0)	Folkston	$50,000	Residents reported tornado on the ground. Two homes on Camp Pickney Road damaged. Right mover moving down State Road 40 into Camden County.
October 1998	Flash Flood	North Portion	$15,000	Several roads were closed.
September 1996	Flash Flood	Folkston	$15,000	no account filed
February 1996	Tornado (F0)	Mattox	$12,000	no account filed
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Moniac	$10,000	Many large trees down across power lines.
September 1998	Flash Flood	Countywide	$10,000	Rainfall amounts of 5 to 7 inches from the remnants of Hurricane Georges caused the closing of numerous street and roads.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$5,000	On North 3rd St. tops of pine trees snapped off 30 feet above the ground.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$5,000	Large pines downed onto power lines. Along Highway 252.
February 1998	Tornado (F0)	Folkston	$5,000	Large trees were blown down. One mobile home was damaged. Power line poles were snapped.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$3,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
November 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Racepond	$3,000	Trees And Powerlines Were Reported Down In Race Pond, GA. Time of damage Was Estimated By Radar.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Homeland	$3,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	not stated	$3,000	Several reports of trees and large limbs blown down.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees were blown down.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees were blown down.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
September 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
February 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Mattox	$2,500	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Homeland	$2,000	A spotter reported multiple downed trees and powerlines in the Folkston area. Some fires started with the downed powerlines. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of wind damage was unknown but estimated for inclusion in Storm Data.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,000	Power poles were knocked down E-SE of Folkston. \| Over 1000 electric customers were reported \| without power. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
August 2012	Lightning	Homeland	$2,000	Lightning started a fire at a power substation in Folkston. Power outages were caused to customers in Charlton, Camden and Nassau counties. The cost of repair was estimated.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	St George	$2,000	Large trees snapped and down across power lines.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	St George	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	St George	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
November 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	St George	$2,000	no account filed
February 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$2,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Winokur	$2,000	no account filed
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Winokur	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	St George	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down along HWY 121.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	St George	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Winokur	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down along US-301.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Traders Hill	$1,000	A large tree limb broke off and fell onto a house causing a hole in the \| roof along Hamp Chesser Rd. The hole was \| estimated to be big enough to stick an arm \| through. A large pine tree was also down. \| Time was estimated by radar. The cost was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Uptonville	$1,000	Large trees were blown down along US 1.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$500	A tree was blown down across Highway 121 near mile marker 7. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for Storm Data inclusion.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Homeland	$500	A tree was blown down at the intersection of Orange and Lincoln Streets in the town of homeland. The time of damage was based on radar data. The cost of damage was estimated (truly unknown) for the event to be included in Storm Data.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2000	Tornado (F0)	St George	$500	Brief touchdown. Weak FO
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$500	Large trees were blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Folkston	$500	Large trees were blown down.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	St George	-	A large tree Snapped and fell across the street Near St. George Elementary School In St. George, Ga. Time Estimated Based Off Radar.
March 2025	Heavy Rain	Racepond	-	A mesonet station TT331 Oke-Nw measured 3.74 \| inches of rainfall. Rain began around 9 AM. \| About 2.25 inches of rain fell between 10 AM \| and 12 PM.
March 2025	Heavy Rain	Racepond	-	A RAWs site in the Okefenokee NWR measured daily rainfall of 2.31 inches since 7 am local time.
March 2025	Tornado (EF0)	Winokur	-	At approximately 1052 AM EDT, a weak and narrow EF0 tornado\|touched down near a dirt road just off of Crews Community Rd in\|Winokur, GA where it snapped several small healthy trees. The\|tornado then continued east-northeastward along Crews Community\|Road just west of the Winokur town center where it snapped several\|other small tress and large branches. The most damage was observed\|near the intersection of County Road 96, Crews Community Rd, and\|Samuel Crews Rd near the center of Winokur as well as crossing\|Highway 301 just to the north of the center of Winokur. Damage in\|this area included the tops of several softwood trees were snapped,\|many small & large branches were broken, a large shed was \|destroyed, shingles were blown off a couple of houses, siding was ripped off a house causing partial building damage, and a \|large tree snapped near the base of the trunk and fell on \|powerlines. The tornado then crossed the Charlton/Brantley county\|line near a heavily forested area before ending near Riverside Rd\|just north of Big Oak, GA, where several small branches were \|broken and a small tree was snapped near the base of the trunk.
August 2025	Heavy Rain	Winokur	-	A personal weather station northwest of Folkston measured 4 inches of rain in just under 3 hours.
August 2025	Heavy Rain	Folkston Davis Arpt	-	A personal weather station in Folkston measured just over 2 inches of rain in an hour.

Mines and quarries

4 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 4 workings inside this county. 3 still produce and 1 is closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity	Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction	2
Zirconium, Titanium	1
REE, Titanium, Zirconium	1
Thorium	1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Folkston Concentrator	REE, Titanium, Zirconium, Thorium	Past Producer
Folkston Placer	Zirconium, Titanium	Producer	Beach Placer
Charlton Sand Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
St. Marys Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every populated place in the county

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

Boggy

St. George census division · On River Styx · Moniac quadrangle

11 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Camp Pinkney

Folkston census division · 31537 · Boulogne quadrangle

17 sheets, 1917 to 1988

No longer a settlement
Centerville

Folkston census division · 31537 · Boulogne quadrangle

17 sheets, 1917 to 1988

No longer a settlement
Clarking

St. George census division · 31562 · Saint George quadrangle

13 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Cypress Siding

Folkston census division · 31537 · On Melton Branch · Newell quadrangle

10 sheets, 1918 to 1980
Ferry Landing

St. George census division · 31537 · On Spanish Creek · Folkston quadrangle

11 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Folkston

Folkston census division · 31537 · Folkston quadrangle

11 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Homeland

Folkston census division · 31537 · Folkston quadrangle

11 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Layton

Folkston census division · 31537 · Boulogne quadrangle

17 sheets, 1917 to 1988
Mattox

Folkston census division · 31537 · On Little Spanish Creek · Newell quadrangle

10 sheets, 1918 to 1980
McLeods Mill

Folkston census division · 31537 · Near Green Hammock · Cravens Island quadrangle

7 sheets, 1954 to 1994
Moniac

St. George census division · 31562 · Moniac quadrangle

11 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Newell

Folkston census division · 31537 · Near Turkey Island · Newell quadrangle

10 sheets, 1918 to 1980
Oakdale

Folkston census division · 31537 · On Hatchers Branch · Folkston quadrangle

11 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Paxton

Folkston census division · 31537 · Folkston quadrangle

11 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Petersons

Folkston census division · 31537 · Near Trouble Valley · Newell quadrangle

10 sheets, 1918 to 1980

No longer a settlement
Pinehurst

Folkston census division · 31537 · Boulogne quadrangle

17 sheets, 1917 to 1988
Prescott

Folkston census division · 31537 · Burnt Fort quadrangle

17 sheets, 1917 to 1993

No longer a settlement
Racepond

Folkston census division · 31537 · Fort Mudge quadrangle

8 sheets, 1953 to 1994
Saint George

St. George census division · 31562 · On Mims Creek · Saint George quadrangle

13 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Silver Hill

Folkston census division · 31537 · Near McDonald Island · Chase Prairie quadrangle

10 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Stanley Landing

St. George census division · 31537 · On Stanley Branch · Folkston quadrangle

11 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Stokesville

St. George census division · 31562 · Macclenny NE quadrangle

13 sheets, 1917 to 1981
Toledo

St. George census division · 31562 · On Harris Creek · Toledo quadrangle

12 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Traders Hill

St. George census division · 31537 · On Spanish Creek · Folkston quadrangle

11 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Uptonville

Folkston census division · 31537 · On Little Spanish Creek · Newell quadrangle

10 sheets, 1918 to 1980
Winokur

Folkston census division · 31537 · On Cross Swamp · Winokur quadrangle

8 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Woodstock

Folkston census division · 31537 · Boulogne quadrangle

17 sheets, 1917 to 1988

No longer a settlement

The vanished settlements of Charlton County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
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.