Clinch County Jail

Built in 1894. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Clinch County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1894.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Court Sq., Homerville, 31634
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. building
Census division. Homerville
When was it built? 1894
National Register reference number. 80000994 - 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

299 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of Clinch County Jail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,793 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 35 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	151
Natural	53
Arson/incendiarism	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	3

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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CLINCH-015
3 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CLINCH-024
27 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CLINCH-009
23 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CLINCH-023
18 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CLINCH-008
18 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Clinch County

Storms near this property

60 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homerville, the town this property stands in, in 84 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 57 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 6 heavy rain, 2 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
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$25,000	Large tree fell on a home.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$25,000	Mobile home destroyed.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$20,000	Roof blown off of house at Hwy 441. Spotter reports of severe winds.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$15,000	Trees and power lines blown down. Home on West Forest Avenue had roof damage.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$10,000	Numerous large trees and power lines down along the Thelma Highway.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$10,000	Multiple large trees down one on a house.
May 2023	Flood	Homerville	$5,000	Flood water entered a restaurant in Homerville. The water was ankle deep. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion in Storm Data.
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$4,500	One home with minor damage. Large trees and power lines were blown down.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$4,000	Several large trees were uprooted or blown down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$3,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$2,500	Large tress and power lines were blown down.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2012	Lightning	Homerville	$1,000	Lightning struck a transformer in Homerville. The cost of damage was estimated.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$1,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$1,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$1,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$600	Several large trees were blown down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$500	Large trees were blown down.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$500	Large tree and power lines were blown down.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$500	Large trees blocked US-441.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	$50	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	A tree was blown down.
April 2021	Hail	Homerville	-	Quarter size hail was reported on Moonshadow Road. The time of the event was based on radar.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	Trees were blown down near Homerville.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	Power lines and trees were blown down along Shiloh Highway.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	Powerlines were blown down along Highway 187. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	A tree was blown down across Highway 84 in Homerville. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	Power lines were blown down on County Road 37 in Homerville. The time was based on radar.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	A power line was blown down on Sand Hill Road.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	A tree was blown down along West Plant Avenue in Homerville.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	Trees and power lines were blown down across Homerville city limits. The time of damage was based on radar imagery.
June 2010	Hail	Homerville	-	Quarter size hail was reported at the corner of Kight Street and Wiregrass Street in Homerville. Half inch size hail was also observed.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	A tree was blown down on East Dame Avenue. Residents reported other trees down in the area.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	Power lines were blown down south of Homerville.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	A trained Spotter reorted a tree down.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	A tree fell on a pool house near the Clinch County Airport.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	Estimated 55 to 60 mph wind gusts reported. Power was out in about half of the City of Homerville.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	A tree was blown down on a power line at 141 Wireglass Extension.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	Power lines were blown down on West Plant Avenue.
June 2008	Hail	Homerville	-	Minor street flooding was also reported in Homerville.
September 2007	Heavy Rain	Homerville	-	A spotter measured 2.5 inches of rain in 45 minutes.
July 2007	Heavy Rain	Homerville	-	A side road on the westside of Homerville was covered by 4 to 6 inches of water. Two to four inches of standing water also covered portions of Highway 84 just east of Homerville.
July 2007	Heavy Rain	Homerville	-	A spotter reported at least 3 inches of standing water was over roads about 2 miles southeast of Homerville. A car was run off the road into a culvert along Highway 441. Three inches of rainfall was measured from 830-1115 pm local time in Homerville.
August 2007	Funnel Cloud	Homerville	-	A spotter reported a funnel cloud in Osteen over Highway 441.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	Multiple windows broken on northwest side of town.
October 2003	Hail	Homerville	-	Golf ball to tennis ball sized hail reported by the general public, trained spotters and emergency management in and near the City of Homerville. Total of four (4) separate reports in a 10 minute time frame.
October 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Homerville	-	Emergency manager reported numerous trees down on power lines in downtown Homerville.
July 2002	Flood	Homerville	-	Extensive street flooding.
May 2012	Hail	Homerville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Homerville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Heavy Rain	Homerville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinch 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Clinch County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000994 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinch County	All 2 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.