Warren County, Georgia

27 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases across 1 place.

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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

Warren County within Georgia

What the record shows

1 place in this county was surveyed for fire insurance: Warrenton, between 1884 and 1930.
8 fire insurance atlases survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
200 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
4 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 3 buildings and 1 district.
1 of the 4 listings was added during the 1970s.
The Geographic Names Information System records 19 populated places in this county; 19 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
Roberts-McGregor House	building	1979	79000750
Warren County Courthouse	building	1980	80001259
Warrenton Downtown Historic District	district	2002	02000340
Warrenton Gymnasium-Auditorium	building	2002	02001214

The county from the air

31 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 780 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 31 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, 1950-11-29, scale 1:59000 — 1950-11-29, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-04-04, scale 1:59000 — 1951-04-04, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1957-03-10, scale 1:28000 — 1957-03-10, scale 1:28000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1958-03-22, scale 1:18000 — 1958-03-22, scale 1:18000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1961-07-06, scale 1:23066 — 1961-07-06, scale 1:23066. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1961-07-06, scale 1:23155 — 1961-07-06, scale 1:23155. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1964-09-01, scale 1:30000 — 1964-09-01, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-03-09, scale 1:19000 — 1971-03-09, scale 1:19000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-03-22, scale 1:19000 — 1972-03-22, scale 1:19000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-02-21, scale 1:80000 — 1977-02-21, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1990-01-26, scale 1:24000 — 1990-01-26, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

3 stations

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

CAMAK 1891 to 1914, hottest 42.2 C, coldest -15.0 C
WARRENTON 1914 to 2017, hottest 43.3 C, coldest -20.0 C
WARRENTON 0.7 WNW 2020 to 2026

The 1950 census, district by district

14 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.

149-1Militia District 150, Panhandle
149-2Militia District 153, English
149-3Militia District 154, Jewells: Militia District 154, Jewells - That part east of State Hwys. 16 and 123
149-4Militia District 154, Jewells - That part west of State Hwys. 16 and 123
149-5Camak town, comprising parts of Militia Districts 155, Stag Hall and 425, Warrenton: Camak town - That part in Militia District 155, Stag Hall
149-6Camak town - That part in Militia District 425, Warrenton
149-7Militia District 155, Stag Hall - That part outside Camak town (Remainder of Militia District 155, Stag Hall is in Camak town)
149-8Militia District 157, Elim
149-9Militia District 158, Norwood: Norwood town
149-10Militia District 158, Norwood - That part outside Norwood town
149-11Militia District 159, Barnett
149-12Militia District 425, Warrenton, outside Camak town: Warrenton city - That part north of State Hwy. 12
149-13Warrenton city - That part south of State Hwy. 12
149-14Militia District 425, Warrenton - That part outside Camak town and Warrenton city (Remainder of Militia District 425, Warrenton, is in Camak town)

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

726 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 726 of them, burning about 3,365 acres. 54 started naturally and 47 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	422
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60
Equipment and vehicle use	56
Natural	54
Smoking	47
Arson/incendiarism	47
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Recreation and ceremony	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	12

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
13 May 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	171 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 October 2012	Debris and open burning	134 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-WARREN-007
9 March 2000	Smoking	116 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2000-WARREN-022
26 July 1993	Natural	91 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2011	Natural	85 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WARREN-001
24 January 2011	Debris and open burning	83 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WARREN-015
12 March 2011	Debris and open burning	72 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-GLASCOCK-017
16 March 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	66 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

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

Storms, 1955 to 2023

60 of 80 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 80 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 3 injuries and about $2,254,000 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event	Reports
Thunderstorm Wind	51
Hail	16
Tornado	6
Lightning	4
Funnel Cloud	1
Flash Flood	1
Flood	1

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
March 2007	Tornado (EF2)	Warrenton	3 hurt, $700,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, GA concluded that an EF2 tornado tracked across eastern Warren county, touching down about four miles east-northeast of Warrenton, and continued into McDuffie county, terminating about 6 miles northeast of Thomson near Interstate-20. The overall tornado path length was 15 miles, but only about 2.5 miles of the path occurred within Warren county. The maximum path width was 448 yards or about one-quarter nautical mile. The tornado tracked very close to U.S. Highway 278 or Georgia Highway 12, the main highway between Warrenton and Thomson. The most significant damage occurred to the Briarwood Academy on U.S. Highway 278. In addition, a number of homes, mostly double-wide mobile homes, sustained significant damage between Warrenton and the McDuffie county line, especially on the northeast side of Warrenton. Most of the damage was in the Camak Road and Thomson Highway area. One double-wide mobile home was completely destroyed with only the base slab left standing. There were eight homes with major damage, 13 with moderate damage, and 17 with minor damage. Three individuals sustained minor injuries from flying glass and debris. Dozens of trees and power lines were down along the path of the tornado.
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Norwood	$1,000,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the final tornado to touch down within the county warning area of the April 27th and April 28th outbreak was in Warren county. This was yet again another EF1 tornado. The tornado touched down four miles southwest of Norwood and tracked nearly eight miles on an east-northeastward path across northern Warren county lifting one mile northeast of Camak. The maximum path width was determined to be 1/4 mile with maximum winds estimated to be 105 mph. Eight homes sustained moderate to major damage along the path of the tornado, mostly from large fallen trees on the structures. Hundreds of trees and several power lines were down along the path of the tornado. There were no fatalities or injuries with the final tornado of this historical outbreak.\|\|[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #15, County #1-1, EF1, Warren, 2011:024].
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Barnett	$100,000	The Warren County 911 Center reported that dozens of trees and power lines were down throughout the county. Five homes in the county sustained minor damage from downed trees.
March 2008	Hail	Warrenton	$90,000	The public observed baseball-sized hail across the southern portions of Warren county. Nickel-sized hail was observed by the public in Warrenton. Radar supported that a swath of large hail fell across much of the southern portion of Warren county, south of Warrenton and Norris, including the far southeastern panhandle.
June 2007	Lightning	Warrenton	$75,000	The Warren County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a home. The home was completely destroyed from the resulting fire.
February 2012	Hail	Ansley	$30,000	A trained spotter reported that golf ball sized hail fell just north of Jewell.
February 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Four Points	$25,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the EF3 tornado which originated in Hancock county, continued across extreme southern Warren county and then into extreme northwest Glascock county. The tornado weakened to an EF1 as it crossed into Warren county with a maximum path width of 100 yards. While the total path length of the tornado was nearly 11 miles, just a little over one mile of this path was within Warren county. Since the tornado traveled through an extremely rural part of Warren county, damage was confined to around 100 downed trees.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide	$25,000	The Warren county 911 center reported trees down throughout the county.
April 1957	Tornado (F2)	not stated	$25,000	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide	$20,000	The Warren county 911 center reported more trees down countywide.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Jewell	$10,000	The Warren County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down across the county.
July 2013	Flood	Norwood	$10,000	The Warren County emergency manager reported additional rainfall of around two inches on already wet soils caused the drainage systems to be overwhelmed leading to some washed out roads in the Warrenton area.
July 2003	Lightning	Warrenton	$10,000	The Warrenton Clipper reported that lightning struck and destroyed the chimney on a home, along with two television sets and some telephones inside.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Camak	$8,000	The Warren County 911 Center reported multiple trees down along I-20 and along Ridge Road.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cedar Rock	$6,000	The Warren County 911 center reported trees blown down from north of Norwood to near Warrenton including along I-20 around mile marker 158 and around Durham Road, and near the intersection of Elam Church Road and Jack Ray Road.
November 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	East Warrenton	$6,000	The Warren County 911 Center reported trees blown down across the county.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Camak	$5,000	Report of 5 trees down on roadways in Camak.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Camak	$5,000	The Warren County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down along Highway 278.
July 2010	Lightning	Warrenton	$5,000	The Warren County 911 Center reported that a lightning strike rendered the emergency center's radios inoperative for several hours.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwood	$5,000	The Warren County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were down in the Norwood area. It appeared to them to have possibly been a downburst.
June 2007	Lightning	Warrenton	$5,000	The Warren County Emergency Mangement Director reported that 12 cows were killed from a lightning strike.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide	$5,000	The Warren county 911 center reported that a number of trees were blown down across the county.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$5,000	The Jefferson County Emergency Management Center reported trees down on power lines throughout the southern part of Warren county.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$5,000	Warren county 911 reported numerous trees were blown down county-wide.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$5,000	Several large trees were downed at Nayfield and East Warrenton roads on the east side of Warrenton.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$5,000	Numerous large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds along Georgia Highway 278.
February 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$5,000	Several large trees were blown down.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwood	$5,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	East Warrenton	$4,000	Report of 4 trees down across roadways in Warrenton.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$4,000	Power lines down at the intersection of W Elam Church Road and Jack Ray Road.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ansley	$4,000	The Warren County 911 center reported multiple trees blown down southwest of Warrenton, along Long Creek Road.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Plainview	$3,000	Brier creek around 5 miles east of Warrenton overflowed a portion of East Warrenton Road with up to one foot of water.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwood	$3,000	The Warren County Emergency Manager reported that a couple of trees were blown down in Norwood and a few trees were blown down in Camak.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Camak	$3,000	The Warren County 911 reported that six trees and one power line were down near Camak.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$3,000	The Warren County Emergency Management Director reported that an apparent thunderstorm downburst from a small thunderstorm resulted in six to nine trees being blown down in the area south and east of Warrenten.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadley	$3,000	The Warren County Emergency Management Director and the Warren County 911 Center reported that a number of trees were down on Interstate-20 in the northern part of the county. Other trees were down in other areas of the county, including at least two trees down on U.S. Highway 278 north of Warrenton.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$3,000	The Warren county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down.
February 1973	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$2,500	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwood	$2,000	Trees down in the 1000-4000 blocks of Ridge Road in Norwood.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadley	$2,000	Large tree down on the 5000 block of E Cadley Road.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$2,000	The Warren County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down around the intersection of Mayfield Road and Atlanta Highway.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwood	$2,000	The Warren County 911 center reported trees blown down along Highway 278 in Norwood and along Washington Highway in Camak.
January 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwood	$2,000	The Warren county 911 center reported that trees were down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Camak	$2,000	Warren county 911 reported trees and power lines down on highway 80 between Camak and Warrenton. Trees were also knocked down on power lines near Barnett.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$1,500	Two tree limbs were knocked down on power lines along Georgia Highway 278 in Warrenton.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cadley	$1,000	Large tree down at the intersection of Hwy 80 and Indian Hill Road.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Norris	$1,000	The Warren County 911 Center reported that a few trees were blown down in the far western portion of the county near the Hancock county line.
December 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Barnett	$1,000	The Warren County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down, scattered about the county.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$1,000	The Warren county Emergency Management Director reported that a shed was blown over at a gasoline service station.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Jewell	$1,000	The Warren county 911 center reported that power lines were down in the Jewell/Jewells Mill area.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Norwood	$1,000	Warren county 911 reported numerous trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$1,000	Warren county 911 reported several trees blown down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked numerous trees down on power lines.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down on the Eastern part of Briarcreek Church Road.
January 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Ansley	-	The tornado started near the intersection of Mayfield Rd and Riverview Farms Rd. It tracked ENE uprooting trees and picked up strength as it approached Atlanta Highway where a grove of large pines were snapped or uprooted with EF-1 intensity. The tornado crossed Old Camek Rd near the intersection of Lithonia Church Rd snapping and uprooting a number of large pine trees and causing minor structural damage as it approached the intersection of Washington HWY and Calvin Dr. The Georgia State Patrol (GSP) Aviation Division used a helicopter to pick up the trail near Camak, just east of Church Street, and moved toward the northeast. EF-0 damage to trees was seen from the helicopter extending from Camak Rd to the intersection of Wire Road and Otis Jones Road. A second NWS survey team determined the tornado strengthened again to EF-1 intensity as it approached Mesena Road and continued northeast across the county line to Foster Sprouse Road. In this area, a couple of homes had roof and facia damage, a metal work shed and outdoor kitchen were destroyed, and a swath of large and healthy pine trees were snapped and uprooted. As the tornado crossed Foster Sprouse Road, it continued to snap and uproot trees, one of which fell on a house. The tornado then weakened as it crossed Union Church Road and dissipated before reaching West Bypass.
June 2023	Hail	Barnett	-	Report of 1 inch hail at Carl Sanders Hwy and US 278.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Reese	-	Trees and powerlines down on Little Briar Creek Church Road near Ricketson Road.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Reese	-	Trees and powerlines down at Ricketson Road near Mt. Pleasant Road.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mesena	-	Metal roofing pulled off a barn/shed along Wire Rd with several trees snapped.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	East Warrenton	-	Several trees knocked down with one on mobile home causing structural damage off of Parkway Dr in Warrenton.

Mines and quarries

16 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 16 workings inside this county. 7 still produce and 9 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity	Workings
Kaolin	6
Gold	4
Clay	3
Stone, Crushed/Broken	2
Iron	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
Warren County Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Warrenton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Weston and Brooker Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hobbs Clay Mine	Clay	Producer
Palmer Mine	Clay	Producer
Purvis Mine	Clay	Producer
Sellers	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Taylor	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Warren Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Wilson & Watson	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Bowden Pit	Kaolin	Occurrence
Bowden Pit	Kaolin	Producer
Georgia Kaolin Company.	Kaolin	Occurrence
Hinton Mine	Kaolin	Occurrence
Hinton Mine	Kaolin	Producer
Huber Mine	Kaolin	Occurrence

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. The 1 place that was also surveyed for fire insurance comes first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.

Warrenton

Warrenton census division · 30828 · Warrenton quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988

Fire insurance: 8 atlases
Ansley

Norris census division · 30828 · On Long Creek · Jewell quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Barnett

Norwood census division · 30821 · Sharon quadrangle

13 sheets, 1906 to 1988
Beall Springs

Norris census division · 30828 · Beall Springs quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Cadley

Camak census division · 30821 · On Tanyard Branch · Cadley quadrangle

12 sheets, 1906 to 1988
Camak

Camak census division · 30807 · Warrenton quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Cedar Rock

Camak census division · 30824 · On Childers Creek · Wrightsboro quadrangle

14 sheets, 1906 to 1988
Downs

Norris census division · 30820 · Beall Springs quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
East Warrenton

Warrenton census division · 30828 · Warrenton quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Four Points

Norris census division · 30820 · Beall Springs quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Jewell

Norris census division · 31045 · On Long Creek · Jewell quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Mesena

Camak census division · 30828 · Thomson West quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Norris

Norris census division · 30828 · Warrenton quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Norwood

Norwood census division · 30821 · Warrenton quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Plainview

Camak census division · 30828 · Warrenton quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Reese

Warrenton census division · 30828 · On Darden Branch · Bastonville quadrangle

9 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Silvertown

Camak census division · 30828 · Warrenton quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Stony Hill

Norris census division · 30828 · On Stony Hill · Beall Springs quadrangle

10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Thigpen

Camak census division · 30821 · On Tanyard Branch · Cadley quadrangle

12 sheets, 1906 to 1988

Recorded here

Warrenton, Georgia

10 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases, 1884 to 1930

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.