BlockFrom the record
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Taliaferro County · listed in 2006 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Crawfordville Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
The listing
- Address. Roughly centered on the downtown business district of Crawfordville, Crawfordville, 30631
- When was it listed? March 2006
- Category. district
- Census division. Crawfordville
- National Register reference number. 06000124 - 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
147 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Crawfordville Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 618 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 10 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 | 61 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 14 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2001 | Smoking | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-TALIAFERRO-003 |
| 2 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 49 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019TALIAFERRO001 |
| 7 August 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Crawfordville Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golucks-Rhodes | Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Hackney-Lucas | Gold | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this property
13 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawfordville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawfordville | $12,000 | The Taliaferro County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down along I-20 near mile marker 150. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawfordville | $5,000 | Multiple trees down around A. H. Stephens State Park. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawfordville | $3,000 | Several trees down along Interstate 20 and State Route 22. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawfordville | $3,000 | The Georgia Department of Transportation reported trees blown down onto the roadway along Highway 22 near Carters Ford Road and along I-20 near mile marker 152. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawfordville | $3,000 | The Taliaferro County 911 Center reported that three trees and two power lines were down near Crawfordville. Doppler radar data suggests that this occurred in the far southern part of the county from six to eight miles southwest of Crawfordville near the Hancock county line. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawfordville | $2,000 | Trees were reported down in AH Stephens State Park as well as in Crawfordville with some trees across roads in the area. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Crawfordville | $2,000 | The public reported golf ball-sized hail in the southwest part of Taliaferro county near the Hancock county line and southwest of Crawfordville. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawfordville | $1,500 | The Taliaferro County 911 Center reported that several trees were downed, mainly in the eastern part of the county. Two trees were down on Interstate 20, blocking the lane at mile marker 147. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawfordville | $1,000 | Tree down across Highway 22 near the Hancock county line. |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawfordville | $250 | The Taliaferro County 911 Center reported that one tree was blown down. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Crawfordville | - | A Taliaferro County Sheriff's Deputy reported quarter-sized hail along I-20 near Crawfordville. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Crawfordville | - | The Taliaferro county 911 center reported penny-sized hail. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Crawfordville | - | The Taliaferro county 911 center reported penny-sized hail. |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Liberty Hall | 0.2 miles | 1970 |
 | Taliaferro County Courthouse | 0.4 miles | 1980 |
 | Chapman-Steed House | 0.5 miles | 2002 |
 | A. H. Stephens Memorial State Park | 0.7 miles | 1995 |
| Locust Grove Cemetery | 7.0 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 06000124 in Record Group 79. |
| Taliaferro County | All 7 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.