Buford Public School Auditorium

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Gwinnett County · listed in 2009 · 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. 4975 Little Mill Rd., Buford, 30518
When was it listed? August 2009
Category. building
Census division. Buford-Sugar Hill
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 09000586 - 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Buford Public School Auditorium between 1992 and 2018, burning about 346 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 37 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	41
Arson/incendiarism	37
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	6
Natural	3

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 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	6.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HALL-005
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2002	Natural	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GWINNETT-003
5 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HALL-002
20 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Buford Public School Auditorium: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Atlantic Steel/ Cartersville, Ga.	Iron	Producer
Chattahoochee River Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Level Creek Gold Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gwinnett County

Storms near this property

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buford, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 lightning, 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
September 2009	Flood	Buford	$12,500,000	Record flooding continued to expand eastern the eastern suburbs of the Atlanta metropolitan area as renewed rounds of showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rain tracked repeatedly over the same areas throughout the day. Portions of hundreds of roads in the county were closed from flooding and washed out bridges and/or culverts. Hundreds of homes, apartments, and businesses sustained significant flood damage. Record flooding was occurring on Suwanee Creek near Suwanee. Some of the most significant flooding occurred in the Stone Mountain area on U.S. Highway 78 from the DeKalb county line to Ross Road. Monetary damage to property and roads during this time frame across Gwinnett county was estimated to be near $12.5 million.
September 2009	Flood	Buford	$5,630,000	Gwinnett county emergency management personnel and USGS stream gages confirmed that record to catastrophic flooding continued across much of the county. Hundreds of homes, apartments, businesses, and roads sustained damages from flooding. A number of culverts and/or bridges were washed out and several roads were closed. Flood waters began to recede after 830 am EDT on the 22nd. However, many locations remained in major to record flood until 715 am EDT on the 23rd. Monetary damage from flooding continued to mount, with damages exceeding $5.6 million during this time frame.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	$350,000	The Gwinnett Daily Post reported that seven homes within the county, mainly in the northwest portion between Duluth and Buford, were damaged by strong straight-line winds. The homes were mainly damaged when large trees fell on the structures. The most significant damage was reported at the Saratoga Spring Apartment Complex in Duluth, where a large tree destroyed four apartment units.
July 2008	Lightning	Buford	$250,000	The Gwinnett Extra portion of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that caused nine structural fires in the Buford area. The most significant incident was a home set on fire in the 900 block of Creekview Bluff Way in Buford. The roof of the two-story home was completely destroyed.
July 2010	Lightning	Buford	$200,000	Fox 5 Television of Atlanta and the Gwinnett Daily Post reported that lightning struck a home on Roberts Street just northeast of Buford. The single story, single family home was completely destroyed as a result of the ensuing fire. A family of four was displaced as a result of this incident, but no injuries occurred.
July 2005	Lightning	Buford	$132,000	The Gwinnett Daily Post reported that at least four lightning incidents occurred during the afternoon. One home on Pintail Court in Lawrenceville suffered moderate damage to an exterior wall and attic when lightning set it on fire. A second home on Kennedy Road in Buford sustained significant damage when lightning set the attic on fire which burned through the roof of the home. A third fire occurred on Windy Shore Drive in Snellville. Only minor damage to an interior garage wall was reported at this location. Finally, lightning struck a transformer in the area causing 6500 people to lose power.
August 2006	Lightning	Buford	$100,000	The Gwinnett Daily Post reported that a home on Goldmist Drive was struck by lightning and set on fire. Considerable damage was noted to the attic and one room. The home was declared uninhabitable resulting in the displacement of three people.
July 1999	Lightning	Buford	$30,000	A newspaper reported lightning sparked a fire that heavily damaged a church at the intersection of Island Ford and Buford Dam roads.
August 2009	Lightning	Buford	$25,000	The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported that lightning struck a home in the 7000 block of River Island Circle. A portion of the roof and an exterior wall were set on fire before the fire was extinguished. The structure suffered minor structural damage.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	$15,000	The public reported a few trees blown down on the east side of Buford from Rolling Creek Drive to Stoneleigh Run Drive where one tree fell onto a parked car causing some damage to the roof.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	$15,000	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that several trees and power lines were down across the county. The Gwinnett County 911 Center reported that several power lines were down in the Buford area. Several roads were either blocked or at least partially blocked, including East Shadburn Ferry in Buford, South Berkeley Lake Road in Duluth, and Highpoint Road Southwest near U.S. Highway 78 in Snellville.
April 1998	Hail	Buford	$5,000	Golfball size hail damaged a car.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	$4,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked over several large tree limbs, one of which crushed patio furniture.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	$3,500	The Gwinnett Times reported that a large tree was blown down, which broke five to six power poles.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	$3,000	The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported that at least 10 trees were blown down along Buford Highway in northern Gwinnett county from a thunderstorm downburst.
May 2006	Lightning	Buford	$3,000	The Gwinnett Daily Post of Lawrenceville reported that lightning struck and set on fire a storage shed at a home on Amer Creek Trail. The shed was completely destroyed. The nearby home was not damaged since the shed was unattached to the home.
December 2005	Hail	Buford	$3,000	Several reports were received from the public of quarter-sized hail in Buford and east of Buford to near the Hall county line. One report from the public indicated hail as large as half-dollars in the Buford area.
May 2006	Lightning	Buford	$2,000	A local newspaper reported that lightning struck a storage shed adjacent to a home, setting the storage shed on fire. The adjacent home was not damaged.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds caused minor structural damage to a home.
June 2011	Lightning	Buford	$1,000	The Gwinnett County Emergency Management Director reported that a home on Stewart Ridge Walk, NE in Buford was struck by lightning. Although there was a strong smell of smoke, no fire occurred. It appeared that lightning had affected some of the electrical components of the home with no fire. Monetary damage was minimal and related to electrical equipment.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	$1,000	The Gwinnett County SkyWarn measured a wind gust of 60 mph in Buford at 1845 LDT. The wind gust caused minor damage to the roof of one home. A few minutes earlier, other SkyWarn members estimated wind gusts in the 50 to 60 mph range near Interstate-85 and Georgia Highway 20 in the Sugar Hill and Buford area, very close to the Mall of Georgia. Then in the 1850 - 1855 period, the same thunderstorm caused damage to a home north of Dacula and just west of Auburn on the Gwinnett/Barrow county line when wind gusts blew some shutters off the house.
May 1998	Hail	Buford	$1,000	A public report indicated hail ranging dime to golf ball size.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	$500	The Gwinnett County Emergency Manager reported two trees down in the vicinity of Hamilton Mill Road, Thrasher Road and I-985.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	-	Report from mping, power-poles broken.
March 2008	Hail	Buford	-	An amateur radio operator reported quarter-sized hail in far northern Gwinnett county in the Buford area.
May 2006	Hail	Buford	-	A number of reports of hail, ranging in size from pennies to ping-pong balls, were received from the public across many areas of Gwinnett county, especially the northeast two-thirds of the county, northeast of a line from Norcross to Grayson. Ping-pong ball-sized hail was reported in the Lawrenceville area. Nickel to quarter-sized hail was reported from both Snellville and Grayson, with nickel-sized hail reported in the Norcross area. Penny-sized hail was reported in the north part of the county in the Buford area, while near penny-sized hail was reported near the Walton county line southeast of Grayson.
June 2005	Hail	Buford	-	The public reported penny-sized hail in Buford and quarter-sized hail in Dacula.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	-	A spotter with the Gwinnett County Skywarn measured a wind gust of 62 mph with an electronic home weather station.
December 2004	Hail	Buford	-	A Gwinnett County SkyWarn spotter reported penny-sized hail.
July 2004	Hail	Buford	-	A spotter with the Gwinnett County SkyWarn reported penny-sized hail.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Buford	-	A SkyWarn spotter for the Gwinnett County ARIES reported a wind gust to 60 mph.
June 2001	Hail	Buford	-	The public reported dime size hail.
May 1999	Hail	Buford	-	The public reported dime size hail.
April 1998	Hail	Buford	-	Larger than nickel size hail was reported at Buford Dam.
October 1997	Hail	Buford	-	Dime size hail was reported by the public.
July 1997	Hail	Buford	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Buford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gwinnett 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
Bona Allen Shoe and Horse Collar Factory	0.5 miles	2005
John Quincy Allen House	0.5 miles	1984
Bona Allen House	0.6 miles	1983
Suwanee Historic District	5.8 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000586 in Record Group 79.
Gwinnett County	All 18 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.