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Elms, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Talbot County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. GA 36 at Sun Rise Rd. or Red Bone Rd., near Pleasant Hill, 3 mi. E of Woodland, Woodland, 31836
When was it listed? September 2004
Category. building
Census division. Woodland
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 04000930 - 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

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Elms, The between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,629 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 53 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	91
Arson/incendiarism	53
Railroad operations and maintenance	26
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	3
Smoking	2
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
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TALBOT-007
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-TALBOT-001
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TALBOT-003
30 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TALBOT012
28 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TALBOT-016
21 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TALBOT-011

Every fire recorded in Talbot County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elms, The: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
	Martin Mine	Mica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Talbot County

Storms near this property

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$45,000	The Talbot County Sheriff's office reported that several trees were blown down near Georgia Highway 36. At least one tree blocked a portion of the highway. A motorist swerved to miss a tree that had fallen across the highway, subsequently hitting another tree. The passenger was killed in the accident.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$10,000	Upson Electric Management Cooperative reported that a number of trees and at least a dozen power lines were down in the northeast part of the county where a thunderstorm microburst had apparently occurred. Power lines and trees were down on Harvey Ingram Road, Mountain Valley Road, and Georgia Highway 36 northeast of Woodland.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$8,000	The Talbot County Emergency Manager reported several trees and power lines blown down in the Woodland area causing significant power outages.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$5,000	Numerous power outages were reported when several large trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$3,000	Several trees and powerlines reported down in the Pleasant Valley Rd Manchester hwy area in Woodland.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$3,000	The Talbot County Sheriff's office reported that seven trees were down scattered about the county. Several were down on roads.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$2,000	Trees down at intersection of Manchester Highway and Pleasant Valley Road.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$1,000	The Talbot county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down between Wood Oak Estates and Shiloh on the Harris/Talbot county border.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$1,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$800	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodland	$500	The Talbot County Sheriff's office reported that two trees were blown down in Woodland, one along Highway 36 and another along Highway 208.
December 2021	Hail	Woodland	-	Local EM reported up to quarter-sized hail in the Woodland area.
June 2011	Hail	Woodland	-	Upson Electric Management Coopertive workers observed nickel to quarter-sized hail across the northeast part of Talbot county near Woodland and Pleasant Hill.
November 1997	Hail	Woodland	-	The public reported nickel size hail.

Every storm recorded in Talbot 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

2 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
	David Shelton House	7.4 miles	1980
	Newton P. Carreker House	7.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000930 in Record Group 79.
Talbot County	All 12 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.