Winterville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Clarke County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly center on Main St. and on the abandoned Georgia RR line within the city limits of Winterville, Winterville, 30683
When was it listed? October 2001
Category. district
Census division. Winterville
National Register reference number. 01000742 - 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

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Winterville Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 254 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 24 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	102
Arson/incendiarism	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Smoking	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OGLETHORPE-014
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-OGLETHORPE-010
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Winterville Historic District: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
	Athens Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	The Georgia Loan & Trust Co. Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winterville, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2010	Lightning	Winterville	$200,000	The Clarke County 911 Center reported that lightning set a commercial business on fire on Voyles Road, approximately two miles northwest of Winterville in northeast Clarke county. The business suffered significant damage from the resulting fire.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Winterville	$15,000	The Clarke County Emergency Manager reported multiple trees blown down along Lakeview Drive.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Winterville	$7,000	The Clarke County 911 Center reported that at least 10 trees and a half-a-dozen power lines were down from northwest of Winterville to south of Athens near the Oconee county line. One tree was down on Simonton Bridge Road, blocking the road.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Winterville	$2,000	The public reported that two large trees were down and numerous branches were blown down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Winterville	$1,000	Photo of a large tree down in the roadway along Main St in Winterville, GA.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Winterville	$1,000	The Clarke County 911 Center reported a large tree blown down near Hull Road and Harve Mathis Road.
January 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Winterville	$500	Thunderstorm winds damaged two barns and a porch along Dawson Street. Small hail was reported as well.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Winterville	-	Numerous reports of trees and powerlines down on roads and houses in the Winterville area.
March 2017	Hail	Winterville	-	A report of quarter size hail in Winterville was received over social media.
August 2007	Hail	Winterville	-	The public observed penny-sized hail. It was reported to be accumulating on the ground south of Winterville. One large tree was also blown down in Winterville.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Winterville	-	The Clarke county Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were down on power lines. A storm spotter for the National Weather Service also reported large limbs down in the Oconee Heights area northwest of Athens.
June 2001	Flood	Winterville	-	The public reported minor street flooding. Up to 1.25 inches of rain fell in 30 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery	4.8 miles	2006
Oconee Street School	5.2 miles	2018
Oconee Hill Cemetery	5.3 miles	2013
Athens Factory	5.3 miles	1980
Athens Warehouse Historic District	5.4 miles	1988
Jackson Street Cemetery	5.5 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000742 in Record Group 79.
Clarke County	All 64 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.