Martin Elementary School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Terrell 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 608 Church St., Bronwood, 39826
When was it listed? May 2008
Category. building
Census division. Bronwood
National Register reference number. 08000397 - 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 Martin Elementary School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 609 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 was 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	73
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TERRELL002
5 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TERRELL-002
23 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1995	Natural	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Terrell County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronwood, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Bronwood	$50,000	Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines with several outages reported in Bronwood and Dawson.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bronwood	$20,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in Bronwood. The media also reported trees were down on houses. Monetary damage was estimated.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bronwood	$3,000	Fallen and leaning trees and limbs resulted in power outages near Bronwood.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bronwood	$3,000	Several trees were blown down on Highway 118 between Dawson and Bronwood. Media reports indicate that trees were blocking the roadway.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bronwood	-	Trees were blown down in Bronwood.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bronwood	-	Trees were blown down on Highway 118 between Bronwood and Dawson.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bronwood	-	A tree was blown down near Bronwood.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bronwood	-	A tree was blown down along Highway 118 near James Webb Road.
June 2007	Hail	Bronwood	-	Quarter size hail was observed in Bronwood.
June 2007	Hail	Bronwood	-	Tennis ball size hail was observed in Bronwood.

Every storm recorded in Terrell 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
Bronwood Calaboose	0.3 miles	1982
Dawson Historict District	6.1 miles	1997
Dawson Woman's Clubhouse	6.2 miles	1982
Terrell County Courthouse	6.4 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000397 in Record Group 79.
Terrell County	All 6 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.