Augusta, Georgia

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Richmond County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 47 shown

• Augusta Canal Industrial DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971
• College HillNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971
• Meadow GardenNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
• Old Medical College BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972
• Woodrow Wilson Boyhood HomeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1979
• Academy of Richmond Countylisted 1973
• Academy of Richmond County-1926 Campuslisted 2004
• Augusta Cotton Exchange Buildinglisted 1978
• Augusta Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2004
• Stephen Vincent Benet Houselisted 1971
• Brahe Houselisted 1973
• Broad Street Historic Districtlisted 1980

Every listing in Richmond County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 78 shown

• 261 Watkins Street (House), Augustafederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 467 Greene Street (House, Ironwork), Augustafederal building survey, 2 photographs
• 708 Walton Way (House), Augustafederal building survey, 5 photographs
• 712 Walton Way (House), Augustafederal building survey, 4 photographs
• 714-716 Walton Way (House), Augustafederal building survey, 2 photographs
• 720 Walton Way (House), Augustafederal building survey, 3 photographs
• 726 Walton Way (House), Augustafederal building survey, 7 photographs
• 730 Walton Way (House), Augustafederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Atlantic Coastline Railroad Freight Warehouse, 1 Ninth Street, Augustafederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Augusta Canal Industrial District, Augustafederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Augusta Canal, Augustafederal building survey, 47 photographs
• Augusta Machine Works, Jackson, Adams, & Campbell Streets, Augusta Canal, Augustafederal building survey, 4 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Richmond County

Augusta grew from 48,000 to 202,081 between 1980 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1921 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1943 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
• 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:24000

1 chapter about Augusta from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Augusta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 610 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 45 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Eastview
• Gordon Park
• Marion Homes
• Aragon Park
• Bayvale
• Bellemead

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Augusta: 7 past producers, 6 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Augusta in 92 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 54 thunderstorm wind, 27 hail, 7 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 44 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Richmond County

8 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 5,683 issues, 46,873 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 17 issues spread across its run from 1865 to 1919, 49,094 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 310670. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.