High Shoals Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Oconee County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Centered on GA 186, and banks of the Apalachee R, North High Shoals, 30621
When was it listed? October 2006
Category. district
Census division. Watkinsville
National Register reference number. 06000958 - 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of High Shoals Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 284 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 6 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	78
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	10
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Smoking	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of High Shoals Historic District: 2 prospects. 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
	Branch Prospect	Mica	Prospect
	Thomas Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Oconee County

Storms near this property

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North High Shoals, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	North High Shoals	$12,000	The Oconee County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down from north of North high Shoals along Rays Church Road to west of Bishop along High Shoals Road.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	North High Shoals	$10,000	The Oconee County 911 Center reported that up to 30 trees were down across the southern end of the county.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	North High Shoals	$7,000	The Oconee County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were down throughout the county. Among other locations, trees were down on Moores Mill, Ridgeway and power lines were down on Malcolm Bridge, and Lenru Roads.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North High Shoals	$5,000	The Oconee County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were down in the west central and southern part of the county, south of Watkinsville, mostly in the Bishop area.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	North High Shoals	$1,000	The public reported a large tree blown down in the backyard of a home on Elder Ridge Drive.
February 2009	Hail	North High Shoals	-	The Oconee County Emergency Management Director relayed numerous reports of quarter-sized hail across the southern half of Oconee county, generally along and south of a line from North High Shoals, to Bishop, to Farmington, to Salem.

Every storm recorded in Oconee 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
Bishop Historic District	4.2 miles	1996
Abe Jones House	4.9 miles	1994
South Main Street Historic District	6.4 miles	1979
Farmers and Citizens Supply Company Block	6.5 miles	1987
Eagle Tavern	6.7 miles	1970
William Daniell House	6.9 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000958 in Record Group 79.
Oconee 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.
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.