Elberton, Georgia

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Elbert 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 records

• Asa Chandler Houselisted 1982
• Elbert County Courthouselisted 1980
• Elberton Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1982
• Elberton Depotlisted 1986
• Elberton Residential Historic Districtlisted 1982
• Rock Gymlisted 1998
• William Allen House
• Ralph Banks Placelisted 1978
• Dove Creek Baptist Churchlisted 1987
• Elberton Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)listed 2015
• Forest Avenue Historic Districtlisted 2015
• Ralph Gaines Houselisted 1977

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

• Georgia DOT Bridge No. 105-00168X-00203E, Spanning Beaverdam Creek at County Road 168, Elbertonfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Georgia-Carolina Memorial Bridge, State Highway 72, Elbertonfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elbertonfederal building survey, 27 photographs

Elberton fell from 4,653 to 4,640 between 2010 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.

• 1893 USGS Elberton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Elberton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Elberton East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 274 fires within 5 miles of Elberton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 476 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 24 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:

• Silk Mills
• North Elberton
• Clarks Junction
• Harmony
• Middleton
• Beverly

Every fire recorded in Elbert County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Elberton: 8 producers, 6 past producers, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kaolin, Stone, Dimension. 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 Elbert County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elberton in 79 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 40 thunderstorm wind, 30 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 Elbert County

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 355658. 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.