Fort Valley Downtown and Railroad Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Peach County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Centered around SR 49, Main St, Church St, and the railroad line, Fort Valley, 31030
When was it listed? August 2010
Category. district
Census division. Fort Valley
National Register reference number. 10000549 - 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

356 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 356 fires within 5 miles of Fort Valley Downtown and Railroad Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 893 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 50 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	194
Arson/incendiarism	50
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Natural	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	4

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
9 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-CRAWFORD-012
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Peach County

Storms near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Valley, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 1997: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Valley	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Valley	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees along Georgia Highway 49 and Vinson Road. Water was also at least two feet deep in some areas.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Valley	$1,000	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Valley	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and tree limbs down within the city limits.
April 1997	Hail	Fort Valley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Peach 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

6 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
Everett Square Historic District	1.4 miles	1994
Collis Potter Huntington Hall	1.4 miles	2000
Jean Leroy Bywaters Building	1.5 miles	2000
Peach County Courthouse	1.6 miles	1980
Henry Alexander Hunt High School Gymnasium	1.8 miles	2021
James A. Everett House	3.3 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000549 in Record Group 79.
Peach County	All 9 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.