Peach County Courthouse

Built in 1936 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Peach County Courthouse is located in Fort Valley, Georgia. It is of the Colonial Revival, and is one of only a few Colonial Revival-style courthouses in Georgia.”
Wikipedia article Peach County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Peach County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1936, Colonial Revival architecture.

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. Off GA 49, Fort Valley, 31030
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Georgia County Courthouses TR
Census division. Fort Valley
When was it built? 1936
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80001219 - 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

335 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Peach County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 655 acres in total. 16 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	182
Arson/incendiarism	43
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Natural	16
Recreation and ceremony	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	4

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 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Peach County

Storms near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Valley, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 1997: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Valley	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Valley	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees along Georgia Highway 49 and Vinson Road. Water was also at least two feet deep in some areas.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Valley	$1,000	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Valley	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and tree limbs down within the city limits.
April 1997	Hail	Fort Valley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Peach 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Everett Square Historic District	0.2 miles	1994
Henry Alexander Hunt High School Gymnasium	0.6 miles	2021
Collis Potter Huntington Hall	1.0 miles	2000
Jean Leroy Bywaters Building	1.1 miles	2000
Fort Valley Downtown and Railroad Historic District	1.6 miles	2010
James A. Everett House	3.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001219 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Peach County	All 9 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.