Edison Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Edison Commercial Historic District is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) historic district in Edison, Georgia, United States that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It included 22 contributing buildings and a contributing structure, plus three buildings not deemed to contribute to the historic character of the district.”
Wikipedia article Edison Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

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 22 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Hartford St./GA 37 and Turner St./GA216, Edison, 39846
When was it listed? May 2000
Category. district
Census division. Edison
National Register reference number. 00000528 - 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

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Edison Commercial Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 569 acres in total. 3 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 burning	157
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3

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 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CALHOUN-003
8 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019CALHOUN001
8 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-CALHOUN-001
2 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this property

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edison, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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 2006	Lightning	Edison	$75,000	Lightning struck an unoccupied home and destroyed it. Reported by the Citizen News-Edison.
December 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Edison	$3,000	Sporadic power outages occurred from just east of Edison to near Dickey as gusty winds from a line of storms moved through the area.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Edison	$2,000	The City of Edison Facebook page reported a tree down on a power line on Manry Street.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Edison	$1,500	A few trees were reported down along with dime sized hail. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Edison	$1,500	Trees were blown down in Edison. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Edison	-	Multiple trees were down near Edison.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Edison	-	Two trees were blown down at Bluffton Road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Edison	-	Several trees were blown down.
January 2017	Hail	Edison	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Edison.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Edison	-	Trees were reported down in Edison.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000528 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun County	All 2 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.