North Villa Rica Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The North Villa Rica Commercial Historic District in Villa Rica, Georgia, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 2002. The original application included eighteen buildings spread out over several blocks.”
Wikipedia article North Villa Rica Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 2002 · 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 16 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly bounded by Southern Railroad, North Ave., and East Gordon and West Church Sts., Villa Rica, 30180
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. district
Census division. Villa Rica
National Register reference number. 02001635 - 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

247 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of North Villa Rica Commercial Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 813 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 78 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	84
Arson/incendiarism	78
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	7
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
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1993	Debris and open burning	5.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CARROLL-008
18 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CARROLL-006
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	8.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of North Villa Rica Commercial Historic District: 9 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron-Pyrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Jenny Stone Prospect	Iron-Pyrite, Zinc	Occurrence	Gossan
Keaten-Thomas Prospect	Iron-Pyrite, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Gossan
Villa Rica	Iron-Pyrite, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, Nickel	Occurrence	Stratabound Concordant Massive Sulfide
Keaton-Thomas Prospect	Sulfur	Prospect
Villa Rica Mine	Sulfur	Past Producer
Villa Rica Plant & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Villa Rica Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
A. C. Watkins Prospect	Iron-Pyrite, Gold	Occurrence	Pyrite
Lasseter Prospect	Iron-Pyrite	Past Producer	Pyrite
Chambers Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this property

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villa Rica, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 lightning, 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
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$200,000	The Carroll county EMA and the public reported thunderstorm winds damaged 12 buildings, 6 of them houses. Damage ranged from minor to moderate. Trees and power lines were also blown down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$100,000	The Carroll County Emergency Management Director reported that several large trees were blown down. Several homes were damaged from the downed trees. A smaller tree fell on a vehicle in Villa Rica trapping a woman in her car, but without injuries. Wind gusts in the area were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2007	Lightning	Villa Rica	$75,000	The Carroll County EMA Director reported that lightning struck a home on Carrollton-Villa Rica Highway, Georgia Highway 61, causing damage to the structure. Another home on Sandhill Hickory Level Road was damaged when a tree fell on the residence as a result of a lightning strike.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$30,000	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$25,000	Tree down on a house near intersection of Vandenburg Drive and Inverness Drive. No reports of injuries.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$10,000	Large tree down on a home near the intersection of Brookside Way and Brookside Drive.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$10,000	A large tree came down on a house in the 600 block of McCurdy Road.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$10,000	Two trees were reported down on a home in the 100 block of Brookside Way.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$10,000	A HAM operator and the public reported trees and power lines down and damage to the roof of a house.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$5,000	Multiple trees down in villa rica .
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$5,000	Five trees down on roadways in Villa Rica city limits.
July 2005	Heavy Rain	Villa Rica	$5,000	The Douglas Neighbor reported that torrential rainfall from thunderstorms associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy resulted in a sinkhole on Tyson Road in Villa Rica. A truck drove into the sinkhole and was trapped there for several hours before it was removed.
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds tore off the roof of a mobile home in Villa Rica.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$3,000	The public reported a tree blown down onto a boat at a home in the 200 block of Legion Lake Road.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$3,000	The Carroll County 911 Center reported that trees were down on power lines in at least 4 locations around the county from Villa Rica in the northeast to along Georgia Highway 5 in the southeast near Lowell.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$3,000	The Carroll county 911 center reported that they have received two calls about trees down on power lines.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$3,000	The Carroll county 911 center reported that trees and power lines were down.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$2,000	Large tree down in the 1000 block of Dallas Road in Villa Rica.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$2,000	The public reported that an apparent thunderstorm microburst or downburst resulted in a number of large tree limbs being blown down and damage to three sections of a wooden fence and swing.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$1,000	Tree and powerlines down along Herrell Dr .
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$1,000	The 911 center reported a tree down in Villa Rica east bound on interstate 20.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$1,000	The Carroll county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$1,000	Carroll county 911 reported power lines blown down between Temple and Villa Rica.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$500	The public reported that five to six small trees were blown down.
June 2002	Lightning	Villa Rica	$500	The Carroll county Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a home causing minor damage as the lightning followed the electrical service line into the house as a conductive path.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	$500	The Carroll county 911 center reported that a few trees were down.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Rica	-	Relayed via carroll county ema. Tree down on a house along tapley rd.
June 2011	Hail	Villa Rica	-	The public observed quarter-sized hail around Villa Rica in extreme northeast Carroll county.
April 2009	Hail	Villa Rica	-	The public reported quarter-sized hail in far northern Carroll county near Villa Rica. This was from a second and separate thunderstorm that earlier produced hail near Whitesburg.
May 2009	Hail	Villa Rica	-	The public observed nickel to quarter-sized hail in the Villa Rica area of far northeast Carroll county from 825 to 835 pm EDT, and further west near Temple in the far northwestern part of the county from 855 pm to 858 pm EDT.
August 2007	Hail	Villa Rica	-	The public observed golf ball-sized hail in east central Carroll county, northeast of Carrollton, and nickel-sized hail in Villa Rica.
September 2007	Hail	Villa Rica	-	A storm spotter observed penny-sized hail while traveling along Interstate-20 south of Villa Rica near the Douglas county line.
June 2006	Hail	Villa Rica	-	Amatuer radio operators and the public reported penny to quarter-sized hail in the Villa Rica area.
July 2006	Hail	Villa Rica	-	The public reported penny-sized hail.
May 2003	Hail	Villa Rica	-	An amateur radio operator reported penny-sized hail.
July 2002	Hail	Villa Rica	-	The Carroll county 911 center reported dime size hail.
June 2001	Hail	Villa Rica	-	The public reported dime to quarter size hail.
June 2000	Hail	Villa Rica	-	The public reported quarter size hail.
August 2000	Hail	Villa Rica	-	An amateur radio operator reported quarter size hail.
February 1999	Hail	Villa Rica	-	The public reported less than one inch size hail...probably around dime size.
August 1998	Funnel Cloud	Villa Rica	-	Carroll county 911 received numerous reports of a funnel cloud between Carrollton and Villa Rica along highway 61.

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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

3 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
Williams Family Farm	2.3 miles	2005
Dorough Round Barn and Farm	4.9 miles	1980
Eric Vernon Folds House	7.5 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001635 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll County	All 17 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.