BlockFrom the record
One of 16 National Register listings published here for McDuffie County · listed in 2000 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Boneville Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- Address. Jct. of Boneville Rd. and the Georgia RR, approx. 5 mi. SE of Thomson, Boneville, 30808
- When was it listed? February 2000
- Category. district
- Census division. Dearing
- National Register reference number. 00000072 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
498 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 498 fires within 5 miles of Boneville Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 855 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 47 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 283 |
| Smoking | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 47 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 27 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-MCDUFFIE-003 |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Boneville Historic District: 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D.J. James Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Georgia Kaolin Pit | Kaolin | Occurrence | ||
| May's Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Poss Mine | Kaolin | Producer |
Storms near this property
16 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boneville, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Boneville | $72,000 | Dispatch reported trees down, some on vehicles, on Moose Club road. NWS damage survey also found and minor damage to several homes. |
| January 2010 | Flash Flood | Boneville | $20,000 | Sheriff reported flooding at apartment complex with up to a foot of water in several apartments. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | $8,000 | McDuffie County paper reported a couple of trees down and a mobile home moved off the foundation by several feet on May road. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | $6,000 | Jefferson Electric reported trees and large limbs down on powerlines in the vicinity of Happy Valley and Fort Creek roads. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | $3,000 | Sheriff reported trees down along Quail Farm Road. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | $3,000 | Public reported trees down on Hwy 78 southeast of Thomson. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | $2,000 | Sheriff reported a tree blocking Wire road. A few others were down along the side of the road. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | $1,000 | Paper reported a mobile home was moved 2 feet off its foundation. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Boneville | $100 | Trained spotter report, via social media, of pea size hail on Quail Farm Rd. Time estimated. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | - | Trained spotter relayed pictures via Facebook of downed trees off Quail Farm Rd near Brier Creek. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | - | McDuffie County dispatch reported a tree down at 4260 Happy Valley Rd. Time estimated by radar. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | - | Trees and power lines down west of Dearing near Hobbs Mill Rd and also near Wire Rd and Augusta Hwy. Other trees were reported down across the western half of McDuffie Co. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | - | Trees down along Howard Rd and White Oak Rd. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Boneville | - | Public reported nickel size hail just south of the town of Thomson. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boneville | - | Sheriff dispatch reported a tree blocking Wire Rd. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Boneville | - | EPD reported dime size hail. |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetwater Inn | 1.5 miles | 1985 | |
| Pine Top Farm | 2.3 miles | 1996 | |
| Thomson Commercial Historic District | 4.2 miles | 2025 | |
 | Usry House | 4.5 miles | 1974 |
| McNeill House | 4.6 miles | 1992 | |
 | Thomas E. Watson House | 4.8 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000072 in Record Group 79. |
| McDuffie County | All 16 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.