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Campbell County Courthouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“The Campbell County Courthouse in Fairburn, Georgia, also known as the Old Campbell County Courthouse, is a Greek Revival brick building that was built in 1871. It was the courthouse for the defunct Campbell County, Georgia, until it merged into Fulton County in 1932.”
Wikipedia article Campbell County Courthouse (Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 258 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76000634- 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
129 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Campbell County Courthouse
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 598 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 42 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
51
Arson/incendiarism
42
Misuse of fire by a minor
10
Recreation and ceremony
8
Smoking
5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Natural
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Equipment and vehicle use
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Campbell County Courthouse: 2 producers, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fairburn, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 4 lightning.
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.
The College Park Police Department observed golf ball-sized hail. The Fulton County 911 Center relayed a report of quarter-sized hail from the Fairburn area. Hail fell for 10 to 15 minutes in the Fairburn area. Georgia Highway 92 was reported to have been covered with hail. The storm weakened as it moved northeast, but penny-sized hail was still observed by the public as it moved through the East Point area near Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that straight-line thunderstorm wind damage continued to track from Douglas into south Fulton county. The most significant damage was observed approximately four miles north of Fairburn, where several downed trees caused damage to several structures along South Fulton Parkway. The Fulton County Emergency Management Director reported that a home was heavily damaged in the 4800 block of Trigger Lane in the north part of Fairburn. The survey confirmed that all of this damage was caused by straight-line winds and not a tornado.
The Fulton County 911 Center reported that several power lines were down in the south end of the county. One tree was also down, but the main problem was downed power lines.
The Fulton County Emergency Management Director reported that a few trees and power lines were down near U.S. Highway 29 in the south part of Fulton County in the Fairburn, Union City, and College Park areas.
The public reported that lightning struck a power meter on the outside of a residence and completely burned the meter as well as some of the immediate wiring. The house was without power until the meter was repaired.
The public reported that lightning struck a power meter on the outside of a residence and completely burned the meter as well as some of the immediate wiring. The house was without power until the meter was repaired.
The Georgia Department of Transportation reported that lightning struck a transformer on a power pole adjacent to interstate-85 near Fairburn. This resulted in the attached power line falling down on the interstate. All lanes of the interstate had to be closed while the line was repaired.
The public observed quarter-sized hail in the College Park area. Earlier reports from the public indicated that golf ball-sized hail fell along the Douglas/Fulton county line southeast of Chapel Hill. This storm tracked with similar intensity from this point eastward across southern Fulton county to College Park. This was a separate thunderstorm from the one that was simultaneously producing hail further north in the county, northwest of Atlanta.
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
3 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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