Stewart County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Stewart County Courthouse, in Lumpkin, Georgia, is a historic courthouse built in 1923 for Stewart County, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Stewart County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Stewart 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. Courthouse Sq., Lumpkin, 31815
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Georgia County Courthouses TR
Census division. Omaha
National Register reference number. 80001234 - 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

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Stewart County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 803 acres in total. 10 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	182
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	21 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-STEWART-004
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Smoking	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-STEWART-001
26 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-STEWART-004
16 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Stewart County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stewart County Courthouse: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
	Stewart Mine	Iron	Past Producer
	Stewart Operations	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Stewart County

Storms near this property

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lumpkin, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
March 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$50,000	The Stewart County Emergency Management Director reported that a thunderstorm microburst tore the roof off the county's Health Department building and damaged an outdoor storage bin at the Emergency Management Director's facility. In addition, some 40 to 50 trees within the same general small area were blown down, uprooted, or torn apart by the strong winds.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$10,000	The Stewart County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down from Lumpkin to northeast of Louvale. Trees and power lines were down on Valley Road, Liberty Street and Broad Street in Lumpkin and along Moores Store Road northeast of Louvale.
November 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Lumpkin	$5,000	A NWS storm survey team found that an EF-1 tornado, with maximum wind speeds of 104 MPH, touched down in central Stewart County just southwest of the city of Lumpkin. The tornado tracked north northeast for less than a mile before lifting causing mainly damage to trees along Green Grove Road. [11/23/14: Tornado #2, County #1-1, EF1, Stewart, 2014:019].
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$5,000	The Stewart County Emergency Management Director reported that several large pine trees were blown down, some landing on and causing damage to recreational campers stored on a lot.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$5,000	Several large tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds.
March 1997	Hail	Lumpkin	$5,000	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$4,000	The public reported trees blown down from Lumpkin to Richland.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$3,000	The Emergency Management Director for Stewart county reported trees down in Lumpkin which also brought down some power lines. In addition, a funnel cloud was sighted in the area.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$2,000	The Stewart County Emergency Management Director reported that a few trees were down south of Lumpkin along with minor structural damage to a building in the far southern part of the county.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$2,000	The Stewart county 911 center reported several trees down on Georgia Highway 27 west of Lumpkin and also near County Line.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$2,000	The public reported two trees down 2 miles south of Lumpkin on Trotman Road and two more trees down on U.S. Highway 27, 3 miles south of Lumpkin.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$1,500	The Stewart County Emergency Manager and 911 Center reported several downed trees east of Lumpkin, including one across Trotman Road and another on Holder Road.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$1,000	The Stewart County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down at Rockwell Street and Hardwick Lane.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$1,000	The Stewart County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were down along Trotman Road southeast of Lumpkin.
November 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$1,000	The Stewart county 911 center reported that three trees were blown down.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$500	The Stewart County 911 Center reported that a couple of trees were blown down.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$500	The Stewart County Emergency Management Director reported that a couple of trees were blown down.
March 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$500	The Stewart County Sheriff's office reported that a few trees were blown down on the east side of Lumpkin.
February 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked several trees and tree limbs onto power lines.
November 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Lumpkin	$500	A power line and one old Texaco gas station sign were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
January 2006	Hail	Lumpkin	-	A corrections officer at the state prison facility near Westville reported penny-sized hail.
May 2006	Hail	Lumpkin	-	An amateur radio operator reported penny-sized hail.
April 2005	Hail	Lumpkin	-	The Stewart county Sheriff's office reported penny-sized hail.
April 2003	Hail	Lumpkin	-	The Stewart county Emergency Management Director reported nickel-sized hail.
September 1998	Funnel Cloud	Lumpkin	-	A funnel cloud was reported near Lumpkin.

Every storm recorded in Stewart 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
Lumpkin Commercial Historic District	under 500 feet	1982
Bedingfield Inn	under 500 feet	1973
East Main Street Residential Historic District	0.1 miles	1982
Stoddard Rockwell House	0.1 miles	1982
Armstrong House	0.1 miles	1982
Dr. Miller's Office	0.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001234 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stewart County	All 26 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.