Woodall-Patton House and Post Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Woodall-Patton House and Post Office, also known as the Schley Post Office and locally known as Patton Hill Post Office, is a historic building near Ellaville, Georgia. It is located on GA 240 3 miles west of US19, along the route between the towns of Buena Vista and Oglethorpe.”
Wikipedia article Woodall-Patton House and Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Schley County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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.
Listed as. Woodall--Patton House and Post Office - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. GA 240, 3 mi. W of US19, Ellaville, 31806
When was it listed? January 2002
Category. building
Census division. Ellaville North
National Register reference number. 01001432 - 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Woodall-Patton House and Post Office between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,168 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 12 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	99
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-SCHLEY-001
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-SCHLEY-003
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MARION-013
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SCHLEY002
15 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021SCHLEY002

Every fire recorded in Schley County

Storms near this property

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellaville, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
November 1997	Tornado (F1)	Ellaville	$250,000	A state of emergency was declared in Schley county where 103 people were displaced due to the storm. In Ellaville, 5 mobile homes were destroyed, 17 homes and 11 other mobile homes sustained minor to moderate damage, and 19 vehicles were damaged or destroyed. The EMA director reported 500 trees were downed and power outages occurred throughout the town.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$50,000	The Schley county newspaper reported that a number of trees were split off or broken off. Some of these trees landed on and caused damage to the Supervised Probation Inc. office. Sixty-percent of the roof caved in. Consequently, the building also suffered some water damage.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$12,000	Approximately a dozen trees down across roadways within Ellaville City Limits.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$11,000	EM reported 11 trees were downed around SE Schley county.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$10,000	The Schley County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were down in the area around Ellaville. A portion of a tree fell on a house in Ellaville and caused damage to the structure.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$10,000	The Schley county sheriff reported that about 15 trees were down, some blocking roads. One tree was down on a home as well. This information was also confirmed by the Americus Times-Recorder.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$10,000	A newspaper reported trees were toppled and a porch was torn off a mobile home in the northern part of Schley county.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$5,000	The Schley County Emergency Manager reported 4 trees blown down onto power lines in Ellaville.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$3,000	The Schley County Emergency Manager reported power lines blown down in Ellaville from Deerfield Circle to North Thompson Street.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$3,000	The Schley County 911 Center reported that several trees were blown down across Georgia Highway 26 northeast of Ellaville and also south of Ellaville on U.S. Highway 19.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked numerous trees down along highway 19 causing power outages.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$1,000	Powerlines down at intersection of East Oglethorpe Street and Hayes Avenue.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$1,000	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$500	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellaville	$300	Thunderstorm winds knocked two trees down on Concord Road.
March 2024	Hail	Ellaville	-	Up to quarter-sized hail observed near the intersection of Broad Street and Hwy 26.
May 2024	Hail	Ellaville	-	Quarter-size hail at GA-26 and N Broad St .
April 2023	Hail	Ellaville	-	Received multiple reports of 1 inch hail in city limits of Ellaville GA.
August 2020	Hail	Ellaville	-	A report of hail the size of quarters falling on the west side of Ellaville was received over social media.
April 2009	Funnel Cloud	Ellaville	-	The public observed a funnel cloud near Ellaville. Doppler radar data clearly indicated a strong mesoscale circulation passing just south of Ellaville at the time.
April 2009	Hail	Ellaville	-	The public observed quarter-sized hail around Ellaville.
February 2008	Hail	Ellaville	-	The Schley County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.
April 2007	Hail	Ellaville	-	The Schley County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.
April 2006	Hail	Ellaville	-	The public reported nickel-sized hail in the southwest part of Schley county and penny-sized hail in Ellaville.
April 2005	Hail	Ellaville	-	The Schley County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.
April 2005	Hail	Ellaville	-	The Schley County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.
May 2003	Hail	Ellaville	-	The Ellaville Police Department reported penny-sized hail.
May 2003	Hail	Ellaville	-	The Schley county Sheriff reported quarter-sized hail.
June 1998	Hail	Ellaville	-	no account filed
November 1997	Hail	Ellaville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schley 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Schley County Courthouse	6.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001432 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schley 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.