Poulan Library

Built in 1908. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Poulan Library is a historic and distinctively small library in Poulan, Georgia, United States. It was built in 1980 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 25, 2003.”
Wikipedia article Poulan Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Worth County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1908.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S side of 100 blk. of Church St., Poulan, 31781
When was it listed? July 2003
Category. building
Census division. Poulan
When was it built? 1908
National Register reference number. 03000679 - 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

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Poulan Library between 1992 and 2020, burning about 919 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 42 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	148
Arson/incendiarism	42
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WORTH-010
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WORTH008
26 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WORTH-004
21 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WORTH-003
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WORTH-004

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Storms near this property

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poulan, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	$20,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	$10,000	The 911 Call Center received a report of either a tree or large branch down on a house in Poulan. Damage was estimated.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	$10,000	Thunderstorm downburst winds toppled an estimated 80 acres of pine trees. Some power poles were also down. Report relayed by NWSFO Peachtree City from an Albany radio station.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines down with scattered power outages. Reported by Worth County 911.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	$5,000	Two utility poles and a transformer were damaged on Seabrook Drive.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	$3,000	A power line was blown down on Highway 256 just east of Cotton Road.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	$2,000	A couple of trees and power lines were blown down on Railroad Street.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	$2,000	A tree was blown down resuling in a power outage along Ousley Street NW.
June 1999	Tornado (F0)	Poulan	$2,000	Tornado sighted by Poulan fire squad toppled numerous trees off SR 256.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	$500	no account filed
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	-	Three trees were blocking Hwy 256.
September 2024	Flash Flood	Poulan	-	Whiddon Mill Road was flooded.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	-	A tree was blown down on Poulan Shingler Road.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	-	A tree was blown down blocking Sands Dr.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	-	Trees were blocking the road at Highway 256 and Seabrook Drive.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	-	A tree was blown down onto McGirt Street in Poulan.
January 2017	Hail	Poulan	-	Ping pong ball size hail was reported in Poulan.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	-	A tree was blown down near Warrior Creek.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	-	A tree was blown down onto Highway 256 south of Poulan.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Poulan	-	A few trees were down on Darlington Road.

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Possum Poke	0.4 miles	1982
US Post Office- Sylvester	3.0 miles	1996
Sylvester Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)	3.0 miles	2002
Worth County Courthouse	3.0 miles	1980
Worth County Local Building	3.1 miles	1980
Sylvester Commercial Historic District	3.1 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000679 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Worth County	All 8 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.