Sumter, Georgia

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 1 record

• Webb Family Farmlisted 1985

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 22 shown

• Big Store, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumterfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Cotton Gin, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumterfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Emory Webb Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumterfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Emory Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumterfederal building survey, 7 photographs
• Filling Station, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumterfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• George Webb Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumterfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• George Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumterfederal building survey, 12 photographs
• Railey-Hall, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumterfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Railey-Hall, Shed, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumterfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Railey-Hall, Smokehouse, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumterfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower Five Points Road and Cornwell Road, Sumterfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower Five Points Road and Cornwell Road, Sumterfederal building survey, 10 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Sumter County

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.

• 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Smithville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

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 207 fires within 5 miles of Sumter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 696 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 14 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:

• Croxton Crossroads
• Maddox
• New Point
• Thalean
• Huntington
• Parkers (historical)

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumter in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 Sumter County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333160. 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.

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.