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Webster County Jails

Built in 1856. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Webster County Jails, located at intersection of Montgomery St and Goare St. in Preston in Webster County, Georgia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”

Wikipedia article Webster County Jails, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Webster County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1856.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Unnamed city street at the jct. of Cass St. and Old Post Office Rd., Preston, 31824
  • When was it listed? March 2000
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Preston
  • When was it built? 1856
  • National Register reference number. 00000152 - 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Webster County Jails between 1992 and 2020, burning about 352 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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 burning99
Equipment and vehicle use32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony3

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021WEBSTER002
5 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WEBSTER-003
19 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-WEBSTER-001

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this property

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Preston, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 21 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Thunderstorm WindPreston$50,000The Webster County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and a few power lines blown down across the entire county from the Seminole area across Preston, Weston, Dumas, Centerpoint and Leveretts.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPreston$45,000The Webster County Emergency Manager reported a roof blown off of a small office building near the intersection of Washington Street and Industrial Boulevard and several trees and power lines blown down in Preston. One tree fell on a house.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPreston$15,000Emergency manager reported that multiple trees were reported down across Webster county including a number of roads that were impassable, all north of HWY 280.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPreston$15,000The Webster County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down in and around Preston.
May 2020HailPreston$15,000The Webster County Emergency Manager reported hail the size of golf balls in Preston.
April 2017Tornado (EF0)Preston$15,000A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF-0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 75 MPH and a maximum path width of 150 yards occurred in northern Webster County. The tornado touched down just west of Seminole Road snapping several trees onto the roadway. The tornado moved east snapping trees as it crossed County Roads 8 and 123 before ending prior to crossing Highway 41. No injuries were reported. [04/03/17: Tornado #9, County #1/1, EF-0, Webster, 2017:041].
May 2020Thunderstorm WindPreston$10,000The Webster County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down along Highway 41 just north of Preston.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPreston$8,000Report of 8 trees down hwy 280 west of Preston.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPreston$5,000The Webster County Emergency Manager reported several trees and power lines blown down near the courthouse in Preston.
November 1997Thunderstorm WindPreston$5,000The Webster county sheriff reported numerous trees were knocked down across county roads in extreme northern Webster county. Other trees were downed southwest of Preston by a second, later storm.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPreston$4,000The Webster County 911 center reported trees blown down in Preston near the intersection of Highways 280 and 41.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindPreston$3,000The Webster County Emergency Manager reported a few trees blown down along Montgomery Street in Preston.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindPreston$3,000The Webster County Emergency manager reported trees and large branches blown down from Ponders Mill Road to Wilson Pond Road.
December 2009FloodPreston$3,000The Webster County Emergency Management Director reported minor flooding of some roads and property across the county, mostly adjacent to overflowing creeks and streams. Monetary damage was confined to minor debris removal in these areas.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindPreston$3,000The Webster County 911 Center reported that a number of trees were down along and near U.S. 280 in the northwest part of the county.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPreston$3,000The Webster county 911 center reported that several trees and some power lines were blown down.
December 2005HailPreston$2,500The Preston Police Department reported golf ball-sized hail.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPreston$2,000The Webster County 911 Center reported that over half-a-dozen trees were down across the county.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindPreston$2,000The Webster county 911 center reported that several trees were down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPreston$2,000Several trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds to the east of Preston.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindPreston$1,000Fire department reports a tree down on a home near the intersection of washington street and industrial boulevard.
March 2025HailPreston$1,000A photo of hail up to quarter size was received from hwy 41 n near the marion county line.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPreston$1,000The Webster County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down on Churchill Road.
August 2007LightningPreston$1,000The Webster County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a couple of trees and electrical transformers and set them on fire at private residences. No structural damage was reported.
April 2006FloodPreston$500The Webster County 911 Center reported that one dirt road was flooded and under water and had to be closed.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindPreston$500The Webster county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindPreston$300no account filed
January 1995Thunderstorm WindPreston$100Thunderstorm winds knocked tree limbs down on power lines.
May 2012HailPreston-The Webster County Emergency Manager reported that penny sized hail fell north of Preston.
March 2011HailPreston-The public observed quarter-sized hail across northern Webster county near Preston.
February 2008HailPreston-The Webster County Emergency Management Director observed penny-sized hail on Deerfield Road.
August 2007HailPreston-The Webster County Emergency Management Director reported that penny-sized hail was observed in the Seminole community. Two to three trees were also blown down at private residences.
January 2006HailPreston-The Webster County Sheriff reported penny-sized hail near the Stewart county line, about five miles west of Preston.
April 2005HailPreston-The public reported penny-sized hail.
April 2003HailPreston-The Webster county 911 center reported golf ball-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Webster County

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

2 within 8 miles

Other 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Webster County Courthouseunder 500 feet1980
Boyd Mill Place6.5 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000152 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Webster CountyAll 3 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.
  • 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.