BlockFrom the record
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Hancock County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Cheely-Coleman House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The listing
- Address. S of Jewell off GA 123 at Ogeechee River, Jewell, 31045
- When was it listed? October 1976
- Category. building
- Census division. Mayfield
- National Register reference number. 76000638 - 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
199 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Cheely-Coleman House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,545 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 10 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 | 114 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WARREN010 |
| 21 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WARREN008 |
| 13 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WARREN006 |
| 10 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2002 | Natural | 120 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-HANCOCK-008 |
| 7 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Jewell Historic District | 3.2 miles | 1979 |
| Shivers-Simpson House | 4.4 miles | 1970 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76000638 in Record Group 79. |
| Hancock County | All 11 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.