William E. and Sarah Dillard Powell House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Rabun County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Powell, William E. and Sarah Dillard, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 219 Boxwood Terrace, Dillard, 30537
When was it listed? January 2008
Category. building
Census division. Mountain City
National Register reference number. 07001337 - 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of William E. and Sarah Dillard Powell House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 725 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Arson/incendiarism	16
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Other causes	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
14 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	WILD TURKEY RUN
22 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	MYSTERY
21 July 2008	Natural	107 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	WILSON KNOB
6 May 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	CABE
3 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	AMERICUS
26 May 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-RABUN-009
19 May 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	WOLFFORK
13 May 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	JAMES

Every fire recorded in Rabun County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of William E. and Sarah Dillard Powell House: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Olivine, Asbestos, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dillard/Ledford Placers	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Stream Placer
National Olivine No 9 Mine	Magnesite	Producer
Norton Chromite Prospect	Chromium, Iron	Prospect	1870
Norton Dunite Deposit	Olivine, Asbestos, Vermiculite	Past Producer	Olivine, Vermiculite
Norton Dunite Deposit	Silica, Asbestos, Magnesite, Vermiculite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rabun County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dillard, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 flood. 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
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillard	$5,000	County comms reported a tree blown down on a vehicle on White Oak Ln.
August 2002	Flood	Dillard	$5,000	Water flooded the parking lot at a supermarket, and some water entered the store.
February 2020	Flood	Dillard	$1,000	Although rainfall tapered off across Rabun County throughout the afternoon, high water conditions persisted across the county due to runoff from the excessive rainfall earlier in the day.
December 2015	Flash Flood	Dillard	$500	After more than 3 inches of rain fell across the northeast Georgia mountains in just a few hours, public reported Mud Creek was overflowing its banks in the Sky Valley community, with Sky Valley Way being impassable.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillard	-	County comms reported trees blown down on Highway 246 and on Crusher Run Rd.
June 2022	Hail	Dillard	-	Public reported (via Social Media) nickel to quarter sized hail along Spy Glass Circle.
July 2012	Flash Flood	Dillard	-	Around 4 inches of rain fell across northern Rabun County during the early morning hours, causing Sutton Branch Creek to flood Neville Rd.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillard	-	Numerous trees were blown down across the county.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillard	-	Multiple trees were blown down and and minor roof damage was reported in Dillard.
November 2011	Flash Flood	Dillard	-	Greenwood Dr and Lamb Rd were flooded on the north side of Dillard.
June 2005	Hail	Dillard	-	Dime hail and non-specific report of high wind.
February 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillard	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Dillard	-	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillard	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillard	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillard	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rabun 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

4 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
Asbury and Sallie Hodgson House	0.6 miles	2011
York House	2.4 miles	1982
Hambidge Center Historic District	3.3 miles	1982
James Henry and Rachel Kilby House	6.6 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001337 in Record Group 79.
Rabun 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.