Columbia County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Columbia County Courthouse in Appling, Georgia is a building from 1812 with extensive additions made to the structure in 1856. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Columbia County Courthouse (Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. GA 47, Appling, 30802
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Georgia County Courthouses TR
Census division. Appling
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80001005 - 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Columbia County Courthouse between 1992 and 2018, burning about 435 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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	76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2014	Natural	32 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-COLUMBIA-002
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COLUMBIA-002
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-COLUMBIA-001

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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 Columbia County Courthouse: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Dogwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Appling, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 28 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	2 hurt, $150,000	EOC and damage survey found trees down all across northern Columbia county. A downburst 8 miles wide with a 4 mile focus took down many trees and damaged a few homes. An abandoned mobile home was totaled.
February 2003	Tornado (F2)	Appling	$310,000	A combination of an intense microburst and a tornado produced winds estimated at 120-130mph. A barn and camper trailer. Moderate damage was done to 4 homes with minor damage to 34 other homes. Debris from the barn was found a mile downstream. The microburst width was 1/8-1/4 mile wide with the vortex circulation about 50 yds wide.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Appling	$98,000	Emergency manager reported flooding on Ray Owens road and other areas of central Columbia county.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	$32,000	COOP reported trees down in Appling, one was on a home that did moderate damage to it.
November 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	$12,000	Sheriff reported multiple trees down across the county.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	$6,000	Sheriff reported multiple trees down in Appling and on I-20.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	$5,000	Saturday night on Ray Owens Rd., Appling, a microburst uprooted an old oak tree, the tops of trees were clipped off, limbs everywhere. Tin roof off a trailor, tin off a shed found across a field, and debre everywhere.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
December 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	$3,000	Sheriff reported trees down in Appling.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Georgia Power website reported power outages on Morris Calloway Road due to a fallen tree. Time estimated by radar.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Columbia County dispatch reported powerlines down at the intersection of White Oak and Pineridge Rd. Time estimated by radar.
June 2023	Hail	Appling	-	Columbia Co dispatch reported nickel size hail at the Sheriff's office SE of Appling. Time estimated.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Tree and power line down on Scotts Ferry Road near Scotts Ferry Trail. Time estimated by radar.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Sheriff dispatch reported a power line down just south of the intersection of Ray Owens Rd and White Oak Rd. Time estimated.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Columbia Co GA EM reported numerous downed trees across the county, from Appling and Harlem, east to Grovetown, Evans and Martinez and surrounding areas.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Trees and power lines were downed in multiple locations throughout the county.
September 2017	Heavy Rain	Appling	-	NWS LARC near Appling measured a total rainfall amount of 5.00 inches.
May 2014	Hail	Appling	-	Dispatch reoprted quarter size hail in Appling.
May 2014	Hail	Appling	-	CoCoRaHS observer reported half dollar size hail.
May 2010	Hail	Appling	-	EM reported 1 inch hail on Old Lincolnton road in Appling.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Emergency Manager reported trees and powerlines down in Appling.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Post Office reported a couple of trees down on Winfield Road.
June 2007	Hail	Appling	-	Public reported quarter size hail in Appling.\|
April 2006	Hail	Appling	-	Highway dept. reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Sheriff reported a couple of trees down on Ray Owen Road.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Newspaper reported numerous trees down in Columbia county with power outages.
January 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Storm Survey found large branches and some small trees down on Marshall road.
May 2005	Hail	Appling	-	EM reported dime size hail on the west end of the county.
May 2005	Hail	Appling	-	EM reported nickel size hail.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Emergency manager reported several trees and powerlines down from Appling to Harlem.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Emergency Management reported trees down from Appling to Pollards Corner.
May 2003	Hail	Appling	-	Sheriff reoprted 1 inch hail just west of Appling.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	SKYWARN spotter reported trees and powerlines down in the Appling area.
April 2002	Hail	Appling	-	Spotter reported 3/4 inch hail in Appling.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Spotter reported several trees down in Appling.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Sheriff reported trees down on several roads in the Appling area.
December 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Sheriff reported trees down on Ray Owning road in Appling.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Highway dept. reported trees down on White Oak rd.
May 1999	Hail	Appling	-	Spotter reported dime size hail.
May 1999	Hail	Appling	-	EOC reported nickel size hail.
April 1998	Hail	Appling	-	County EPD reports dime size hail.
April 1998	Hail	Appling	-	Sheriff reports 3/4 inch hail on I-20.
April 1998	Hail	Appling	-	Sheriff reports dime size hail.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Sheriff reported trees uprooted and numerous funnel cloud reports from public.
June 1998	Hail	Appling	-	Sheriff reported nickel size hail.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	Trees were knocked down.
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Appling	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Appling	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Appling	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
	Kiokee Baptist Church	2.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001005 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia 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.
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.