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Photograph of Wheeler County Courthouse
Photograph by Calvin Beale, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wheeler County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Wheeler County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse built in 1914 shortly after Alamo, Georgia was designated the county seat of newly established Wheeler County, Georgia. Located at 119 Pearl Street, it was designed the previous year by Ed Hosford as his last Georgia courthouse design, and is a brick structure with a columned facade on each side.”

Wikipedia article Wheeler County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Wheeler 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. Pearl St., Alamo, 30411
  • When was it listed? September 1980
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Georgia County Courthouses TR
  • Census division. Alamo
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80001263 - 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

462 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 462 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 916 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 38 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 burning263
Equipment and vehicle use85
Arson/incendiarism38
Natural25
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking8

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1997Smoking1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-WHEELER-003
3 September 1993Natural2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1993Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Wheeler County

Storms near this property

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alamo, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 21 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1993Tornado (F1)Alamo$5,000,000A small tornado developed at Alamo and moved east-northeast across Wheeler County. Several homes, businesses, and other properties were damaged; 2 mobile homes were destroyed. Several county maintenance and storage buildings were heavily damaged. A school complex had extensive damages, including considerable roof damage to one section. Heavy rain fell through the open roof and damaged the carpets, desks, and other properties. Numerous trees, limbs, and power lines were downed by the tornado. Scattered outages resulted. Residential damage costs were estimated at over $500,000. By 0410EST, the tornado had dissipated and the parent storm moved into Montgomery County.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindAlamo$25,000The Wheeler County 911 Center reported that dozens of trees and power lines were blown down across the northern and central part of the county, including Alamo and Erik. At least eight roads were blocked and closed from downed trees.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindAlamo$12,000The Wheeler County 911 center reported multiple trees blown down across the county.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAlamo$8,000The Wheeler County Emergency Manager reported 15 to 20 trees and several power lines down mainly in a two-square-mile area. One tree fell on a small shelter with minor damage.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindAlamo$6,000The Wheeler County 911 Center reported trees blown down across the county.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindAlamo$5,000The Wheeler county 911 center reported a traffic light was blown down at the intersection of U.S.Highway 280 and Georgia Highway 126. Also several large limbs were blown down on power lines.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindAlamo$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew out windows in a few homes and downed several large trees.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindAlamo$4,000The Wheeler County Emergency Management Director reported that thunderstorm downburst winds blew down well over a dozen trees across the northern part of the county. More than 12 trees were down four miles north of Alamo on Snow Hill Road and more than six trees were down in the north part of Alamo.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAlamo$3,000The Wheeler County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were down across the county, but especially along Georgia Highway 19 just north of Jordan.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAlamo$3,000The Little Ocmulgee Electric Membership Cooperative (EMC) reported that several trees were blown down.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindAlamo$2,000Tree reported down near the intersection of Hill Farm Road and Hwy 126.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindAlamo$2,000The postal service for the Alamo area reported that several trees were blown down across the northern portion of the county, generally north of a line from Little Ocmulgee State Park to Glenwood. A large tree was down across Georgia Highway 46 in the far northern part of the county and several other trees were down in the area. A few trees were also down within Little Ocmulgee State Park.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindAlamo$2,000The Wheeler County Emergency Management Director reported that from eight to ten trees were blown down across the northern portion of the county. Trees were down on both Georgia Highway 126 and Georgia Highway 19 near the Laurens county line.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAlamo$2,000Several trees were knocked down, mainly east of Alamo.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindAlamo$1,000The Wheeler County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down near the western border of the county, especially in the Spring Hill area.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindAlamo$1,000The Wheeler County 911 Center reported that three trees were down on U.S. Highway 441 near and south of Little Ocmulgee State Park in the far western part of the county, near the Telfair county line.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindAlamo$500The Wheeler County 911 Center reported that a tree was blown down on a power line.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindAlamo$500A few large trees were uprooted and toppled over power lines by thunderstorm winds.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindAlamo$500no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindAlamo$400The Wheeler county 911 center reported a few trees down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAlamo-Emergency manager reported that a portion of metal roofing was taken off of mobile home in Alamo, GA. Damage to vehicles from wooden roof debris.
March 2011HailAlamo-The Wheeler County 911 Center reported hail of unknown size across the county. However, quarter-sized hail was supported by WSR-88D radar data in conjunction with reports from adjacent counties.
April 2006HailAlamo-The public reported quarter-sized hail in extreme northwest Wheeler county near the Telfair/Dodge county line north of Little Ocmulgee State Park. Another report from the public indicated that nickel-sized hail had fallen in this same area, just north of McRae. The Wheeler County 911 Center reported that nickel-sized hail had fallen in eastern Wheeler county around Glenwood. The Macon Telegraph reported that nickel-sized hail was reported in the area.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindAlamo-The Alamo Police Department reported that several power lines were down because of large limbs that fell on them. A tree was blown down in Glenwood.
June 2001HailAlamo-The Alamo Police Department reported dime size hail.
March 1995HailAlamo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wheeler 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Glenwood High School6.6 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80001263 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wheeler CountyAll 3 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.