Pharr-Callaway-Sethness House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Wilkes County · listed in 1976 · 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. N of Tignall on GA 2193, Tignall, 30668
When was it listed? March 1976
Category. building
Census division. Tignall
National Register reference number. 76000659 - 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Pharr-Callaway-Sethness House between 1992 and 2017, burning about 776 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
29 September 2016	Natural	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WILKES-002
26 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WILKES-002
17 September 1993	Natural	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-WILKES-003
28 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	163 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-ELBERT-002

Every fire recorded in Wilkes County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pharr-Callaway-Sethness House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Delhi Mine	Feldspar	Producer

Every working recorded in Wilkes County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tignall, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2004	Tornado (F1)	Tignall	$1,500,000	A damage assessment conducted by the Wilkes County Emergency Management Director indicated that an F1 tornado, briefly at the high end of the F1 scale, touched down just south of Tignall near Georgia Highway 17 and continued north from six to seven miles along or just west of Georgia Highway 17 to just north of Norman. The path width of the tornado was mostly between 100 and 200 yards, but briefly was up to 500 yards wide between Mallorysville and Georgia Highway 17. The tornado was believed to have been on the ground from 70 to 80 percent of the time along its path. Large trees were uprooted on six single-family dwellings in the Tignall area and several other dwellings were damaged in Norman. All together 23 structures sustained damage from the tornado, ranging from very minor to major. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down, twisted, or uprooted along the path, many causing additional damage to farm fences along the way. A large communications tower was also destroyed. Georgia Highway 17 was blocked in two places along the path by downed trees and three county dirt roads were also blocked along the path. At least 1000 residents in the area lost power and phone service during the event.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Tignall	$3,000	The Wilkes County 911 Center reported that numerous trees and power lines were blown down through the eastern portion of the county.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Tignall	$3,000	The Wilkes county Emergency Management Director reported that some trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Tignall	$3,000	The Wilkes county Emergency Management Director reported that several trees and some power lines were blown down along Georgia Highway 17 North between Tignall and Washington.
May 1998	Hail	Tignall	$2,000	A couple of public reports indicated golf ball size hail fell.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tignall	$1,000	The Wilkes County Emergency Management Director reported that thunderstorm downburst winds blew some vinyl siding off a home and turned a camper on its side. Pea-sized hail was also observed in the area.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Tignall	$500	A few power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2017	Hail	Tignall	-	The Wilkes County Emergency Manager reported quarter size hail in Tignall.
May 1999	Hail	Tignall	-	The public reported nickel size hail.
May 1996	Hail	Tignall	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilkes 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
Gartrell Family House	2.3 miles	2002
Willis-Sale-Stennett House	4.8 miles	1976
Thomas M. Gilmer House	6.3 miles	1977
Anderson House	6.6 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000659 in Record Group 79.
Wilkes County	All 29 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.