Savannah, Georgia

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• Chatham 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 57 shown

• Andrew Low HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Battlefield Park, Carpentry ShopNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978
• Central of Georgia Depot and TrainshedNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
• Fort James JacksonNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
• Green-Meldrim HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974
• Owens-Thomas HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
• Savannah Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• William Scarbrough HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
• Telfair AcademyNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
• Ardsley Park-Chatham Crescent Historic Districtlisted 1985
• Atlantic Greyhound Bus Terminallisted 2016
• Bethesda Home for Boyslisted 1973

Every listing in Chatham County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 154 shown

• 103-109 East President Street (Houses), Savannahfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• 108 West Jones Street (House), Savannahfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• 115 West Oglethorpe Street (House, Doorway), Savannahfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 118 & 124 East Harris Street (House), Savannahfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• 312 & 314 Broughton Street (Houses), Savannahfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• 504-506 East Hall Lane (House), Savannahfederal building survey, 9 photographs
• 621 Ruben Street (House), Savannahfederal building survey, 9 photographs
• Abram Minis House, 204 East Jones Street, Savannahfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Abram Minis House, Carriage House, 204 East Jones Street, Savannahfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Anderson-Leslie House, 4 West Oglethorpe Street, Savannahfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Anderson-Preston House, 14 East Oglethorpe Street, Savannahfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Archibald Smith's Factor's Building, 202-206 East Bay Street, Savannahfederal building survey, 1 photograph

Every surveyed structure in Chatham County

Savannah grew from 141,390 to 147,780 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.

• 1942 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

1 chapter about Savannah 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 97 fires within 5 miles of Savannah between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,553 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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:

• Clearview
• Spauldings Settlement (historical)
• Robert M Hitch Village
• Rossignol Hill
• Woodville
• Carver Village

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Savannah: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Pigment. 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 Chatham County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Savannah in 182 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 97 thunderstorm wind, 38 hail, 31 flash flood, 11 lightning. The reports record 2 deaths and 7 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 Chatham County

7 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 12,014 issues, 104,574 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: 24 issues spread across its run from 1875 to 1904, 134,591 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 322590. 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.