Pembroke Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Bryan County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Centered on US 280 and Main St., Pembroke, 31321
When was it listed? December 2004
Category. district
Census division. Pembroke
National Register reference number. 04001318 - 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

386 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of Pembroke Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,902 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 125 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	212
Arson/incendiarism	125
Natural	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	6.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRYAN NORTH003
30 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Bryan County

Storms near this property

49 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pembroke, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 32 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 deaths and 17 injuries. 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 1998	Tornado (F3)	Pembroke	2 killed, 16 hurt, $2,200,000	Tornado first touched down just northeast of Pembroke and then crossed I-16 at the Olive Branch Road overpass (about 2 miles west of exit 29) then continued northeast. Significant damage occurred in the Olive Branch Rd. area and also just north of Blitchton, where a 38 year-old female and a 41 year old male were killed along with 15 injured. There were seventy-four (74) homes and other buildiings damaged, with fourteen of those destroyed (6 mobile homes, two frame houses, two brick homes, and four other buildings. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off 10 to 15 feet above the ground.
September 2000	Lightning	Pembroke	1 hurt	Lightning struck the chief of police as he attempted to unplug several computers during a thunderstorm. The lightning strike blew the sockets off the walls, broke a water line, and damaged the station's phones, fax, and computers.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$10,000	Many trees were reported down in Pembroke along with widespread Power Outages.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$5,000	Several large trees were downed along Georgia Highway 119.
October 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$5,000	Several large trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds along Georgia Highway 119.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$3,000	Several trees down on Ashbranch Road, Sims Road and Strickland Street.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down 5 trees across the northern part of the county.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$2,000	Trees down on Lanier St, Harry Hagan Street.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$1,000	Law enforcement reported a tree down and blocking Georgia Edwards Road in Pembroke, Georgia.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$1,000	Tree down on Route 67.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$500	Law enforcement reported multiple large tree limbs down across Route 67 near Floyd Road, 3 miles northwest of Pembroke, Georgia.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$500	One tree was reported down on Bacon Road.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	$500	Three large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Bryan County dispatch reported a tree down on a house along Warnell Street in Pembroke.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Bryan County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 19 and George Edwards Road.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	The Bryan County 911 Call Center reported trees down on Bacontown Road, Clayton Road, and Strickland Road in Pembroke.
January 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	A picture shared by the local media on social media showed a pine tree snapped on Camelia Drive.
January 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	A trained spotter reported trees and power lines down near Bedingfield Drive.
April 2017	Hail	Pembroke	-	A report on social media indicated penny size hail.
May 2010	Hail	Pembroke	-	A trained weather spotter reported half dollar size hail in Pembroke, Georgia.
March 2009	Hail	Pembroke	-	A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail fell for about 1 minute in Pembroke, Georgia.
May 2009	Hail	Pembroke	-	The broadcast media reported penny size hail in Pembroke, Georgia.
October 2009	Funnel Cloud	Pembroke	-	The public reported a funnel cloud over Pembroke, Georgia.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Two-inch diameter limbs were reported down.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Pembroke	-	A nearly stationary thunderstorm dropped torrential rainfall for several hours on Pembroke and surrounding areas. A spotter in the area recorded 7.85 inches of rain. This led to extensive flooding of roads with Highways 67 and 119 being closed. A creek in the town also flooded.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked trees and large limbs down.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Several trees were down.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and signs along highway 204.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and large limbs.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Several trees were down.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Trees and large limbs were down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Several trees were down on state road 119.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Large limbs and power lines down.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Several trees down.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	Trees down.
October 1995	Hail	Pembroke	-	Trees and power lines down.
July 2007	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
January 2006	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Pembroke	-	no account filed
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Pembroke	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bryan 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
	Bryan County Courthouse	0.7 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001318 in Record Group 79.
Bryan County	All 9 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.