BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 2002 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Paoli Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- Address. Jct. of Cty Rd. 334 amd Cty Rd. 331, Paoli, 30627
- When was it listed? March 2002
- Category. district
- Census division. Comer
- National Register reference number. 02000094 - 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
219 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Paoli Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 345 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 35 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 | 110 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 35 |
| Smoking | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Paoli Historic District: 6 prospects, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Property | Gold | Past Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Carrington Placer | Gold | Prospect | Placer | |
| J. Threlkeld Placer | Gold | Prospect | Placer | |
| King Placer | Gold | Prospect | Placer | |
| O. Threlkeld Placer | Gold | Prospect | Placer | |
| Parham Placer | Gold | Prospect | Placer | |
| Ridgeway Placer | Gold | Past Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Smith Placer | Gold | Past Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Webb Placer | Gold | Prospect | Placer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paoli, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2011: 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Paoli | $50,000 | A damage assessment conducted by the National Weather Service and the Madison County Emergency Management Director concluded that a short-lived, F0 tornado, associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ivan, touched down near Paoli at the intersection of New Hope Church Road and Paoli New Towns Road and travelled north-northwest at 40 mph along a one-mile long broken path treminating near Collins Brooks Road. One barn was completely destroyed along the path and several homes sustained minor structural damage. Numerous trees were topped along the path of the tornado. |
| August 2011 | Heavy Rain | Paoli | - | The Madison County Emergency Management Director reported that heavy rain, on the order of two to three inches with isolated four inch totals, caused minor flooding of low-lying areas and several drainage ditches to overflow. Some lawns were standing in water for a few hours after the thunderstorms moved out of the area. Flooding was not deemed to be of the level meeting local flood or flash flood criteria. |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comer Historic District | 2.7 miles | 1995 | |
 | Madison County Courthouse | 7.6 miles | 1980 |
 | Colbert Historic District | 7.7 miles | 1984 |
| Colbert School | 7.8 miles | 2001 | |
| Crawford W. Long Childhood Home | 7.8 miles | 1977 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000094 in Record Group 79. |
| Madison County | All 6 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.