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One of 29 National Register listings published here for Wilkes County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
James and Cunningham Daniel House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- Listed as. Daniel, James and Cunningham, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. S of Rayle on Bartram Trace Rd., Rayle, 30660
- When was it listed? November 1980
- Category. building
- Census division. Rayle
- Architectural style. Federal architecture
- National Register reference number. 80001266 - 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
104 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of James and Cunningham Daniel House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 278 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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 | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-WILKES-010 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of James and Cunningham Daniel House: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ga Manganese Co Mine/Taliaferro Magnetite Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | Residual | |
| Georgia Manganese Company | Manganese | Unknown | 1916 |
Storms near this property
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rayle, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rayle | $150,000 | The Wilkes County Emergency Management Director reported that more than a dozen trees and several power lines were down across the county. Two homes sustained minor to moderate damage. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Rayle | $30,000 | The public observed golf ball-sized hail south of Rayle. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Rayle | $25,000 | The Wilkes County Sherrif's Department reported half-dollar-sized hail in the Sardis Road area. Some vehicle damage was reported in the area. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rayle | $10,000 | The Wilkes County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down across the county from near Rayle to Holiday Park. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rayle | $10,000 | A TV news reporter indicated that the roof of a home was partially damaged by thunderstorms winds in Rayle and that approximately 25 trees were down in Tignall. |
| December 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rayle | $5,000 | The Wilkes County Emergency Management Director reported that a barn was blown across a field on Clark-Gresham Road, just northwest of Rayle near the Oglethorpe county line. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Rayle | $5,000 | The USGS stream gage on Kettle Creek just south of Washington reached its flood stage of 14 feet at 1145 pm EDT. The creek remained above flood stage for several hours. Monetary damage was confined to minor debris removal from areas adjacent to the creek. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rayle | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rayle | $3,000 | The Wilkes County Emergency Management Director reported that many trees were blown down, scattered about the county. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rayle | $2,000 | The Washington News Reporter indicated that skirting was blown off several mobile homes at a mobile home sales lot. |
| February 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rayle | $1,000 | The Wilkes County Sherrif's Department reported that several large trees limbs were down in the Rayle area blocking some secondary roads. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rayle | $100 | Rayle EMC reported several large trees were blown down. |
| March 1997 | Hail | Rayle | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Kettle Creek Battlefield | 1.5 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80001266 in Record Group 79. |
| Wilkes County | All 29 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.