Warren County Courthouse

Built in 1909 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Warren County Courthouse in Warrenton, Georgia, located on Courthouse Square, was built in 1909. It is a Classical Revival-style building.”
Wikipedia article Warren County Courthouse (Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1909, Neoclassical 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. Courthouse Sq., Warrenton, 30828
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Georgia County Courthouses TR
Census division. Warrenton
When was it built? 1909
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 80001259 - 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

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Warren County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 866 acres in total. 12 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	148
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Smoking	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2017	Debris and open burning	5.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WARREN-003
26 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WARREN-004
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	6.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WARREN009

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 Warren 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
	Warrenton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this property

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warrenton, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 3 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
March 2007	Tornado (EF2)	Warrenton	3 hurt, $700,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, GA concluded that an EF2 tornado tracked across eastern Warren county, touching down about four miles east-northeast of Warrenton, and continued into McDuffie county, terminating about 6 miles northeast of Thomson near Interstate-20. The overall tornado path length was 15 miles, but only about 2.5 miles of the path occurred within Warren county. The maximum path width was 448 yards or about one-quarter nautical mile. The tornado tracked very close to U.S. Highway 278 or Georgia Highway 12, the main highway between Warrenton and Thomson. The most significant damage occurred to the Briarwood Academy on U.S. Highway 278. In addition, a number of homes, mostly double-wide mobile homes, sustained significant damage between Warrenton and the McDuffie county line, especially on the northeast side of Warrenton. Most of the damage was in the Camak Road and Thomson Highway area. One double-wide mobile home was completely destroyed with only the base slab left standing. There were eight homes with major damage, 13 with moderate damage, and 17 with minor damage. Three individuals sustained minor injuries from flying glass and debris. Dozens of trees and power lines were down along the path of the tornado.
March 2008	Hail	Warrenton	$90,000	The public observed baseball-sized hail across the southern portions of Warren county. Nickel-sized hail was observed by the public in Warrenton. Radar supported that a swath of large hail fell across much of the southern portion of Warren county, south of Warrenton and Norris, including the far southeastern panhandle.
June 2007	Lightning	Warrenton	$75,000	The Warren County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a home. The home was completely destroyed from the resulting fire.
July 2003	Lightning	Warrenton	$10,000	The Warrenton Clipper reported that lightning struck and destroyed the chimney on a home, along with two television sets and some telephones inside.
November 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	East Warrenton	$6,000	The Warren County 911 Center reported trees blown down across the county.
July 2010	Lightning	Warrenton	$5,000	The Warren County 911 Center reported that a lightning strike rendered the emergency center's radios inoperative for several hours.
June 2007	Lightning	Warrenton	$5,000	The Warren County Emergency Mangement Director reported that 12 cows were killed from a lightning strike.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$5,000	The Jefferson County Emergency Management Center reported trees down on power lines throughout the southern part of Warren county.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$5,000	Warren county 911 reported numerous trees were blown down county-wide.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$5,000	Several large trees were downed at Nayfield and East Warrenton roads on the east side of Warrenton.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$5,000	Numerous large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds along Georgia Highway 278.
February 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$5,000	Several large trees were blown down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	East Warrenton	$4,000	Report of 4 trees down across roadways in Warrenton.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$4,000	Power lines down at the intersection of W Elam Church Road and Jack Ray Road.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$3,000	The Warren County Emergency Management Director reported that an apparent thunderstorm downburst from a small thunderstorm resulted in six to nine trees being blown down in the area south and east of Warrenten.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$3,000	The Warren county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$2,000	The Warren County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down around the intersection of Mayfield Road and Atlanta Highway.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$1,500	Two tree limbs were knocked down on power lines along Georgia Highway 278 in Warrenton.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$1,000	The Warren county Emergency Management Director reported that a shed was blown over at a gasoline service station.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$1,000	Warren county 911 reported several trees blown down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	$500	Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down on the Eastern part of Briarcreek Church Road.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	East Warrenton	-	Several trees knocked down with one on mobile home causing structural damage off of Parkway Dr in Warrenton.
May 2014	Hail	Warrenton	-	The Warren County 911 Center reported quarter sized hail outside of Warrenton.
March 2005	Hail	Warrenton	-	The public reported penny-sized hail near the intersection of Georgia Highway 80 and Ridge Road.
May 2002	Hail	Warrenton	-	The Warren county 911 center reported golf ball size hail.
May 2002	Hail	Warrenton	-	An Augusta, Georgia television station relayed a report of golf ball size hail.
May 2002	Hail	Warrenton	-	The Warren county 911 center reported golf ball size hail.
March 1996	Hail	Warrenton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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

3 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
Warrenton Downtown Historic District	under 500 feet	2002
Roberts-McGregor House	under 500 feet	1979
Warrenton Gymnasium-Auditorium	0.2 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001259 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Warren County	All 4 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.