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Photograph of Metcalfe Historic District
Photograph by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Metcalfe Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Metcalfe Historic District in Metcalfe, Georgia is a 96.4-acre (39.0 ha) historic district which included 35 contributing buildings when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”

Wikipedia article Metcalfe Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Thomas County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Metcalfe Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 284 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning21
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 August 2016Debris and open burning4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-THOMAS-001
16 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2000-THOMAS-135
7 May 2011Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-THOMAS-092
28 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019THOMAS007
14 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-THOMAS-025
12 May 2011Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-THOMAS-095
7 April 2006Debris and open burning31 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Storms near this property

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Metcalf, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMetcalf$5,000Numerous trees were blown down near the intersection of Metcalf Road and Horne Cemetery Road. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
February 1998LightningMetcalf$5,000Lightning struk a mobile home igniting several small fires inside the home. An adjoining word porch was set ablaze as the current blasted a twelve-inch hole in the floor.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMetcalf$2,000A few trees and power lines down. Reported by the Thomas County Sheriff.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindMetcalf$1,000A single tree was blown down at the intersection of U.S Highway 19 and Glasgow Road with no other damage reported in the county.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindMetcalf$1,000Two trees were blown down in the southern part of the county. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2024Flash FloodMetcalf-Twelve Mile Post Road going west between Highway 19 and the Florida state line had water over the road.
April 2024Flash FloodMetcalf-Highway 19 and New Hope Road had all lanes flooded.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMetcalf-There were a few reports of trees and power lines down in Thomas county.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMetcalf-A tree was blown down onto Magnolia Drive.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMetcalf-Multiple trees were blown down in southern Thomas county south of Thomasville.
April 2012HailMetcalf-Quarter sized hail was reported at the intersection of Highway 19 and New Hope Road.
April 2021HailMetcalf-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Mill Creek Plantation5.9 miles1997
Millpond Plantation7.0 miles1976
Pebble Hill Plantation7.3 miles1990
Melrose and Sinkola Plantations7.3 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001007 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Thomas CountyAll 44 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.