BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Oglethorpe County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Amis-Elder House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. W of Crawford on Elder Rd., Crawford, 30619
- When was it listed? August 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. Maxeys
- National Register reference number. 78000997 - 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
108 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Amis-Elder House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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 | 55 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-OGLETHORPE-010 |
| 26 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-OCONEE-003 |
Storms near this property
11 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawford, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $8,000 | The Oglethorpe County 911 center reported multiple trees blown down from the Arnoldsville, Crawford and Lexington areas to just south of Comer. Some locations include Dora Hill Bush Road, Arnoldsville Road, Collier Church Road, Washington Road and Hutchins Road. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $6,000 | The Oglethorpe County 911 center reported trees blown down from south of Crawford along Hutchens Road to Lexington. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $5,000 | Several large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $3,000 | The Oglethorpe County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down from Hutchins Road in Crawford to Union Point Road in Lexington. |
| March 2017 | Flash Flood | Crawford | $3,000 | The Emergency Manager reported that flash flooding from heavy rain overwhelmed a pipe under the a section of roadway near Bunker Rill Road and Athens Road causing erosion under the roadway and an eventual washout. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $3,000 | The Oglethorpe County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees and a few power lines were blown down in the Sandy Cross area. The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported that one tree was down in Crawford. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $1,500 | The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported that up to seven trees were blown down along Georgia Highway 77. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $1,000 | The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported that two trees and one power line were down east of Crawford. A tree was down on U.S. Highway 78 just east of Georgia Highway 22 and a tree was down on a power line on Elberton Road in Lexington. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $250 | The Ogelthorpe County 911 Center reported that one tree was blown down along Georgia Highway 77. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Crawford | - | The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported quarter-sized hail in Crawford. The public reported nickel-sized hail in Lexington. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Langston-Daniel House | 6.0 miles | 1978 | |
 | Durham Place | 6.7 miles | 2017 |
| Maxeys Historic District | 6.8 miles | 2022 | |
 | Crawford Depot | 7.7 miles | 1977 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78000997 in Record Group 79. |
| Oglethorpe County | All 12 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.