Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“The Haralson County Courthouse, located on Courthouse Square in Buchanan, Georgia, is a historic Queen Anne style building built in 1891-92. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”
Wikipedia article Haralson County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Haralson County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
Also known as. Georgia County Courthouses TR (AD); Georgia County Courthouses TR
Census division. Buchanan
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.74000688- 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
416 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Haralson County Courthouse
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,503 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 189 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
Arson/incendiarism
189
Debris and open burning
154
Equipment and vehicle use
25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Recreation and ceremony
11
Natural
9
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Smoking
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Haralson County Courthouse: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Buchanan, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 lightning, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 90 mph and a maximum path width of 500 yards occurred on the west side of the city of Buchanan. The tornado touched down north of the New Vision Church of God cemetery and travelled south southeast snapping and uprooting small trees. The tornado intensified and grew in size as it crossed Highway 120 west of the Highway 27 Business Route, reaching its peak in intensity and width south of the highway along Tallapoosa Street. Several large trees were uprooted with one falling on and destroying a home on Tallapoosa Street, seriously injuring two people inside the home. The tornado continued a short distance to the south southeast before dissipating quickly between Jeffers Street and Macedonia Church Road west of Highway 27 Business Route. [03/19/18: Tornado #2, County #1/1, EF-1, Haralson, 2018:006].
A National Weather Service survey team found an area of intense thunderstorm wind damage in Haralson County. Hundreds of trees were blown down in a swath over one mile long and 650 yards wide. The damage originated west of Highway 27 and north of Old Jacksonville Road, sweeping southward to the northwest side of the city of Haralson. Some trees fell onto and damaged homes and other structures. No injuries were reported.
The Haralson County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning caused a structural fire at a commercial building. The damage amount was undertermined.
Amateur radio operators reported trees down along Old Ridgeway Road and Morgan Road between Buchanan and Waco. The public reported trees down on a mobile home in Waco.
Several reports of downed trees were received from the public, local police, and the Haralson County 911 Center. The public reported that at least six trees were down in the Tallapoosa area from Tallapoosa to about three miles south of Tallapoosa along Georgia Highway 100. The County 911 Center reported that one tree was down in Buchanan and another in Waco, both on roadways. The Tallapoosa police reported that at least two trees were down in the city.
A paramedic reported lots of trees and some power lines down between Buchanan and Tallapoosa, and between Bremen and Waco. He also reported small hail.
The Haralson county Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a home setting the vinyl siding on fire. The fire was quickly put out, thus damage to the structure was limited to some of the vinyl siding. The county hospital also suffered a lightning strike, which caused a power outage. However, there was no structural damage to the facility.
The Haralson County 911 Center reported that three trees were down, one in Buchanan, one tree just north of Buchanan, and one in Bremen. Pea-sized hail was also observed near Bremen.
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
2 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.
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.
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