Pace House

Built in 1900 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Pace House in Hazlehurst, Georgia is a "gabled ell cottage" that was originally built c. 1900. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Pace House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Jeff Davis County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1900, Victorian architecture.

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.
Address. 61 E. Coffee St., Hazlehurst, 31539
When was it listed? July 2003
Category. building
Census division. Hazlehurst
When was it built? 1900
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 03000591 - 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

681 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 681 fires within 5 miles of Pace House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,367 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 41 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	433
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Misuse of fire by a minor	45
Arson/incendiarism	41
Smoking	36
Natural	32
Recreation and ceremony	24
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	5

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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JEFF DAVIS-016
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JEFF DAVIS-012
9 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JEFF DAVIS-013
8 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JEFF DAVIS-011
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JEFF DAVIS-015
6 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jeff Davis County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazlehurst, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hazlehurst	$15,000	Eight large trees and several power lines were blown down. Two buildings received structural damage.

Every storm recorded in Jeff Davis 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
	Jeff Davis County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000591 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jeff Davis 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.