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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2001 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Braselton Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The listing
- Address. Jct. of GA 124 and GA 53, Braselton, 30517
- When was it listed? April 2001
- Category. district
- Census division. West Jackson
- National Register reference number. 01000384 - 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
113 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Braselton Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 400 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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 | 58 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| 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
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Braselton, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Braselton | $20,000 | The Jackson County Emergency Management Director reported that a tornado had touched down just southeast of Braselton and traveled approximately one mile to the north. The tornado crossed Georgia Highway 124, and then ended just before Interstate-85. Several dozen large trees were blown down in the area, some on roads and power lines. In addition, minor damage was reported to roofs on a few homes. Damage was confined largely to debris clean up. |
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Braselton | $5,000 | The Jackson County 911 Center reported that multiple trees had blown down across the county, from just east of Braselton to near Nicholson. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Braselton | $5,000 | The Jackson County Emergency Management Director reported that thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto a home causing some structural damage to the property. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Braselton | $2,000 | An amateur radio operator reported that a number of trees were down in the western part of the county between Georgia Highways 211 and 53. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Braselton | $2,000 | The public reported 2 inch hail. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Braselton | $2,000 | Several public reports indicated quarter to golf ball size hail. In addition to hail, a funnel cloud and high winds were reported along highway 129 near the Clarke county line. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Braselton | $1,000 | Tree down at 1100 block of Ednaville Rd . |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Braselton | $1,000 | Tree down blocking the intersection of New Cut Road and highway 53. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Braselton | - | Mping report of quarter size hail . |
| April 2017 | Hail | Braselton | - | A report was received of quarter size hail at the intersection of I-85 and Highway 53 on social media. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Braselton | - | The Jackson County Emergency Manager reported nickel size hail covering the ground to a depth of 1 to 2 inches in the Braselton area. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Braselton | - | The Braselton Fire Department observed penny-sized hail. A few tree limbs were also blown down on Georgia Highway 124 in the western part of the county. |
| May 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Braselton | - | The Jackson county 911 center relayed a number of funnel cloud reports from the Braselton area. |
| February 1998 | Hail | Braselton | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Braselton | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Braselton | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Braselton | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hoschton Depot | 0.9 miles | 2000 |
 | Hillcrest-Allen Clinic and Hospital | 1.5 miles | 1985 |
| Talmo Historic District | 5.8 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01000384 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.