Glascock County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Glascock County Courthouse is a courthouse on Main Street in Gibson, Georgia, the county seat of Glascock County. The first county courthouse was built in 1858 with a donation from William Gibson, namesake of the county seat.”
Wikipedia article Glascock County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Glascock 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. Main St., Gibson, 30810
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Georgia County Courthouses TR
Census division. Gibson
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 80001082 - 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

279 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Glascock County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 839 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 15 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	164
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Natural	21
Arson/incendiarism	15
Smoking	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	5

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
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-GLASCOCK-001
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-GLASCOCK-003
6 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-GLASCOCK-002
14 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-JEFFERSON-006

Every fire recorded in Glascock County

Storms near this property

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gibson, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
July 2007	Lightning	Gibson	$50,000	The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported that two house fires were started as a result of lightning strikes. Damage estimates were indeterminate.
October 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Gibson	$25,000	The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported that a possible microburst downed numerous trees and power lines between Hobbs Road and County Line Road in the extreme northeast part of the county. Two mobile homes were damaged. One of the mobile homes had its roof blown off and another had its porch blown on top of the home. One commercial industry in the area also suffered some roof damage. One witness in the area reported seeing a 4 x 8 foot utility trailer spun around by the strong winds. Another resident estimated the winds at 70 mph and also reported pea-sized hail.
January 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gibson	$7,000	The Glascock county 911 center reported trees down in the northwest part of the county near Five Points. In addition, the roof of one home was damaged.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Gibson	$5,000	The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported that the roof was blown off the carport of a home. No other damage was noted in the area at this time.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Gibson	$5,000	A survey conducted by the National Weather Service and the Glascock County Emergency Management Director concluded that an apparent thunderstorm microburst or downburst resulted in 10 to 12 large trees being uprooted on the east side of Gibson. In addition, some windows were blown out of the porch of a home in the area. Minor roof damage was also reported to the same home and an adjacent barn and a light pole on the property was twisted off as well. Another 15 to 20 trees were snapped off by high winds across a 2-mile wide area. A power pole was snapped when trees fell on the power line.
April 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Gibson	$4,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that a brief EF0 tornado had touched down just southeast of the city of Gibson and traveled approximately 1000 yards or about 0.6 mile on an east-southeastward track. This tornado was spawned by the same supercell thunderstorm that spawned the earlier EF3 tornado in eastern Hancock county. The tornado was determined to have a maximum path width of 150 yards with maximum winds of 100 mph. A number of large pine trees were uprooted or snapped along the path of the tornado. However, no structural damage was noted as a result of this tornado.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gibson	$2,000	The public reported that several trees were down along Georgia Highway 171 from Gibson north toward the Warren county line.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Gibson	$250	The Glascock county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down.
September 2023	Flash Flood	Gibson	-	The public reported Snider Road, between Gibson and Mitchell, was washed out due to highwater on a local creek. Radar estimates indicate that between 2.5 and 3 inches of rain occurred over the area in under an hour, resulting in the flash flooding.
March 2010	Hail	Gibson	-	The Glascock County 911 Center relayed a report of half-dollar-sized hail from the far northern part of the county near the Warren county line.
February 2005	Hail	Gibson	-	The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail.
June 1995	Hail	Gibson	-	One-inch hail fell and damaged the vehicle of an employee at the Gibson Georgia Sheriff's Office.
April 1998	Hail	Gibson	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Gibson	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Gibson	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Gibson	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Gibson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Glascock 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001082 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glascock County	All 1 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.