Boston Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Boston Historic District in Boston in Thomas County, Georgia is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The district then included 192 contributing buildings, five contributing structures, and two contributing sites, as well as 140 non-contributing buildings.”
Wikipedia article Boston Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Thomas County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by US 84, Roundtree and S. Oak Sts, Washington St. and W. Jefferson and W. Railroad Sts., Boston, 31626
When was it listed? May 2007
Category. district
Census division. Boston
National Register reference number. 07000375 - 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Boston Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 721 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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	90
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 1999	Arson/incendiarism	19 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020THOMAS005
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-THOMAS-003
7 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	9.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-THOMAS-002

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Storms near this property

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boston, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2003	Lightning	Boston	$10,000	Lightning damaged the dome of a local church. Reported by the Thomasville Times.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	$3,000	Power lines were blown down around Boston.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	$3,000	Trees and power lines were blown down between Boston and Thomasville.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	$3,000	Power lines were blown down in Boston. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	$3,000	A few trees were blown down around Boston. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	$2,000	Multiple power lines were blown down in Boston, GA.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	$1,000	Several large trees were down across the eastern part of the county.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	$1,000	A SKYWARN storm spotter reported several large oak trees down.
February 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	$500	A tree was blown down in the city of Boston.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	$500	A pine tree was blown down and blocking the outside, eastbound lane of U.S Highway 84 about a quarter mile west of Hallman Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Boston	-	Whitney Camp between Martin and Mitchell had a cross drain pipe wash out with water over the road.
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	-	A few trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	-	A tree was blown down onto Highway 84.
October 2011	Heavy Rain	Boston	-	A 24 hour rain total of 6.21 inches was reported by CoCoRaHS site GA-TH-5.
March 2003	Hail	Boston	-	Dime size hail reported by the Thomas County Sheriff.
November 2025	Hail	Boston	-	no account filed
November 2025	Hail	Boston	-	no account filed
February 2013	Hail	Boston	-	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Boston	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Boston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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
	Martha Poe Dogtrot House	7.6 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000375 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Thomas County	All 44 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.