Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“The Crawford County courthouse in Knoxville, Georgia served as such from 1832 to 2001. Until the time it was removed from service, it was the oldest courthouse still in use in Georgia.”
Wikipedia article Crawford County Courthouse (Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80001008- 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
400 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 400 fires within 5 miles of Crawford County Courthouse
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,099 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 43 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
233
Arson/incendiarism
43
Equipment and vehicle use
39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
26
Natural
19
Recreation and ceremony
16
Misuse of fire by a minor
13
Smoking
11
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Crawford County Courthouse: 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Knoxville, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning.
The reports record 9 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.
A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, GA concluded that an EF3 tornado touched down approximately four miles east of Knoxville and continued east-northeast into Bibb county ending just southeast of Lizella. The tornado exited Crawford county about 5.5 miles east of Sandy Point or about 9 miles east-northeast of Knoxville. The tornado traveled over six miles in Crawford county, but the path length of the entire track was approximately 8.5 miles long with a maximum path width of one-quarter mile. Significant damage was noted along the path of the tornado, especially along Sandy Point Road in northeast Crawford county. Here, several homes and outbuildings were heavily damaged or destroyed. Numerous trees were either snapped or uprooted. Nine injuries were reported in the area of the damaged homes.
The public reported that a poultry house collapsed from very localized thunderstorm downburst winds. A very small thunderstorm was noted in the area at the time. The damaged occurred approximately four miles southeast of the county courthouse in Knoxville.
The Crawford County Emergency Manager reported that a porch was blown off the front of a home on Jackson Road. Several trees were blown down in the county as well.
The Flint Electric Membership Cooperative reported that some power lines were down along U.S. Highway 80 between Knoxville and the Bibb county line, near Sandy Point. Several power outages were reported in the area as well.
Crawford county 911 reported 2 trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds. A newspaper article reported a tree top fell onto a cabin on Hopewell Road West, but caused little damage.The owner reported hearing whistling wind and hail, and suspected a tornado. It was likely a downburst from a severe thunderstorm. Tree damage or uprooting was also reported in other parts of the county.
The Crawford County Emergency Manager reported a lightning strike at Crawford County High School. The strike caused considerable damage to an electrical control box and caused a small fire. There was no significant damage to the building structure due to the fire.
An amateur radio operator reported dime size hail on U.S. Highway 80/Georgia Highway 22 about 4 miles east-northeast of Sandy Point near the Bibb county line.
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
5 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.
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.
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