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Rochelle Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Rochelle Historic District is a 260-acre (110 ha) historic district in Rochelle, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It is centered on 1st Avenue and Ashley Street.”

Wikipedia article Rochelle Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Wilcox County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Centered on 1st Ave and Ashley St., Rochelle, 31079
  • When was it listed? January 2008
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Rochelle
  • National Register reference number. 07001398 - 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

456 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 456 fires within 5 miles of Rochelle Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,480 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 43 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 burning291
Arson/incendiarism43
Equipment and vehicle use39
Natural22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Smoking16
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2011Debris and open burning3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WILCOX-018
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning6.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this property

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rochelle, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2008Thunderstorm WindRochelle$250,000The Wilcox County Emergency Management Director reported that thunderstorm winds resulted in damage to several chicken houses. The roof was blown off nine chicken homes and five others were left leaning slightly.
July 2000LightningRochelle$150,000The Ben Hill Herald-Leader reported that a lightning strike started a fire at a logging operation on Pineview Road which destroyed a fuel trailer with two tanks, an equipment trailer, and a log truck.
October 2008HailRochelle$100,000A deputy with the Wilcox County Sheriff's Department observed baseball-sized hail in the Rochelle area. The public observed golf ball-sized hail in the far northern part of the county in the Pineview area. Several car windshields were observed to have been damaged in the area.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindRochelle$50,00025 to 30 pecan trees and power lines were downed by straight line thunderstorm winds along Georgia Highway 112.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRochelle$40,000Law enforcement reported several trees down in Rochelle; one large oak tree fell on a mobile home.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRochelle$25,000The public reported around a dozen pecan trees blown down near the town of Rochelle.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindRochelle$10,000Wilcox county 911 reported thunderstorm winds tore the roof off of a house.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRochelle$5,000The Wilcox County Emergency Manager reported trees and poweer lines blown down along 5th Avenue in Rochelle.
June 2020Flash FloodRochelle$5,000The Emergency Manager reported a car underwater near the Rochelle Baptist Church.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindRochelle$5,000The Wilcox County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down from Rochelle to Abbeville. Including 2 trees down in Rochelle and 1 down on Wilson Road and another on Owensboro Road between Rochelle and Abbeville.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindRochelle$4,000Numerous trees downed between Rochelle and Abbeville.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindRochelle$3,000The Wilcox County Emergency Manager reported a few trees blown down around Highway 215 and American Legion Road.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRochelle$2,000The Rochelle Police Department reported that power lines were down west of Rochelle, while in the city itself, several limbs were blown down.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindRochelle$2,000The Wilcox county 911 center reported 4 to 5 trees down from Rochelle to Abbeville.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRochelle$1,000The Wilcox County Emergency Manager reported power lines blown down along Highway 215 in Rochelle.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRochelle$1,000Wilcox county 911 reported trees were blown down.
January 1998Thunderstorm WindRochelle$500A truck driver reported several trees were knocked down on highway 129.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindRochelle$200Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on a power line and several limbs were down in the same area.
January 2022Thunderstorm WindRochelle-Damage reported to bleachers and backstop at the Wilcox county recreation department on County Farm Rd.
January 2022Thunderstorm WindRochelle-Several trees reported down in the area between East County Farm Rd, American Legion Rd, and Hwy 215.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRochelle-Large tree down across Boxwood Road off Hwy 215.
June 2020Flash FloodRochelle-The Georgia Department of Transportation reported the SR 280 and SR 112 intersection was impassable due to flooding.
July 2004HailRochelle-The Rochelle Police Department reported penny-sized hail.
July 2004HailRochelle-A cooperative observer for the National Weather Service reported penny-sized hail.
July 1998HailRochelle-no account filed
March 1993HailRochelle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilcox 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07001398 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wilcox CountyAll 2 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.