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Photograph of Bartow Historic District
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Bartow Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Bartow Historic District, in Bartow, Georgia is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district included 121 contributing buildings, three contributing structures, and a contributing site.”

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

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Bartow Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 747 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 5 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 burning95
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural14
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism5

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
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-JEFFERSON-008
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-JEFFERSON-010
18 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-JEFFERSON-011
13 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JEFFERSON-024
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bartow, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1996Tornado (F0)Bartow$10,000no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBartow$2,000The public reported that several trees and many large limbs were blown down, some blocking Highway 221.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBartow$1,000Tree down near the intersection of Hwy 221 and Hwy 319.
May 2009FloodBartow$1,000The USGS gage on the Ogeechee River at Midville rose to the 6.0 foot flood stage during the evening of May 6th. This caused backup of water and minor flooding on William Swamp Creek, Rocky Creek, and Daniels Creek, upstream from Ogeechee River at Midville. Minor flooding of low lands adjacent to these creeks and streams occurred. Damage was confined to minor debris removal.
July 2006HailBartow-The public observed penny-sized hail.
April 1998HailBartow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Cunningham-Coleman House7.7 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08001320 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 5 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.