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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hoschton Depot
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4276 GA 53, Hoschton, 30548
- When was it listed? March 2000
- Category. building
- Census division. West Jackson
- National Register reference number. 00000304 - 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
122 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Hoschton Depot between 1992 and 2019, burning about 439 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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 | 61 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2014-HALL-001 |
| 27 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 26 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 8.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-JACKSON-003 |
| 25 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-BARROW-004 |
| 25 September 1993 | Smoking | 2.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-JACKSON-004 |
| 21 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-JACKSON-003 |
| 17 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-JACKSON-002 |
Storms near this property
12 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoschton, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Lightning | Hoschton | $100,000 | The Athens Banner Herald reported that lightning struck a home on Antrim Glen Road. The structure suffered moderate fire and smoke damage. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoschton | $10,000 | The Jackson County 911 center reported several trees blown down from along Indian Creek Road and along Josh Pirkle Road in the Braselton area to along Ila Road in the Commerce area. |
| April 2025 | Lightning | Hoschton | $5,000 | Lightning struck a house on white trillium drive, causing a large hole in the roof. Time is estimated. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoschton | $5,000 | The Jackson County Emergency Management Director reported that a total of five trees were blown down, scattered about the county. Two trees were down on Georgia Highway 332 about two miles northwest of Jefferson. In addition, in Hoschton, a 10 by 6 foot barn, made of wood and metal, was destroyed. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoschton | $3,000 | Multiple trees down in the Braselton and Hoschton areas. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoschton | $1,000 | Tree on a house along White Street in Hoschton. |
| February 2012 | Hail | Hoschton | - | The Jackson County 911 Center reported that nickel to quarter size hail fell from Hoschton to Jefferson between 11:50 PM and midnight. Additional reports of heavy rain and large hail were received from the public through this area. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Hoschton | - | The Jackson County Sheriff's Department observed penny-sized hail near Hoschton. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Hoschton | - | The public observed penny-sized hail near Hoschton and west of Jefferson near the Barrow county line. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Hoschton | - | The public observed penny-sized hail in far western Jackson county near the Barrow county line. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Hoschton | - | The Jackson county 911 center reported that several creeks in the area quickly rose out of their banks rendering several roads flooded and impassable. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Hoschton | - | The Jackson county 911 center reported dime to quarter 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hillcrest-Allen Clinic and Hospital | 0.6 miles | 1985 |
| Braselton Historic District | 0.9 miles | 2001 | |
| Talmo Historic District | 6.5 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000304 in Record Group 79. |
| Jackson County | All 14 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.