Quitman County Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Quitman County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Main St., Georgetown, 39854
When was it listed? August 1981
Category. building
Census division. Georgetown North
National Register reference number. 81000200 - 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Quitman County Jail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 626 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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	96
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	2
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
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-QUITMAN-002
13 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-QUITMAN-001
28 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Quitman County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Quitman County Jail: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Kaolin, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Eufaula Pit	Aluminum, Kaolin	Past Producer
Barbour Operation Wilson-Snead Mill	Kaolin	Producer
Eufaula Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lumpkin Mill	Iron	Past Producer
Lumpkin Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz

Every working recorded in Quitman County

Storms near this property

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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
July 2008	Lightning	Georgetown	$100,000	A Georgetown restaurant was destroyed by fire. The cause of the blaze was lightning.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$5,000	A large tree was blown down on Highway 82 along with several hundred power outages in the Georgetown area.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$5,000	Several trees and limbs were downed knocking down power lines.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$3,000	Power lines were blown down onto a truck. Trees were down on Highway 39 and 82.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$3,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$2,000	A tree was blown down onto power lines along Highway 82.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$2,000	Several downed trees reported by the Quitman County Sheriff.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$2,000	Some trees and power lines down at U.S. Highway 82 and Hatcher Road. Reported by the Quitman County EMA.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$500	Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees onto power lines which along U.S. Highway 82 which caused one to two power outages in Georgetown.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$250	A few trees were down southeast of Quitman.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Two trees were blown down on Winding Way Road.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Downed power lines were reported in an area of Florence St and Depot St .
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Scattered trees were blown down.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	There were 2 reports of trees down in Quitman county.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Trees were blown down in Quitman county.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Several trees were reported down by the Quitman County Sheriff's Office.
March 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Georgetown	-	The Eufaula police department reported a tornado on the ground near Georgetown. However, no damage was reported.
December 2009	Flood	Georgetown	-	Water up to a foot deep covered several streets and roadways in Georgetown, including portions of U.S. Highway 82. Several retention ponds were overflowing.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Numerous trees were down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	A few trees were down northeast of Georgetown.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Several trees were down across the northern half of the county.
June 2007	Hail	Georgetown	-	Half dollar size hail was reported.
April 2005	Hail	Georgetown	-	Nickel size hail reported by the Quitman County Sheriff.
December 2005	Hail	Georgetown	-	The Quitman County Sheriff reported quarter size hail.
June 2002	Hail	Georgetown	-	Nickel size hail fell on U.S. Highway 82. Reported by the Quitman County Sheriff.
March 2011	Hail	Georgetown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Quitman 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Quitman County Courthouse and Old Jail	under 500 feet	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000200 in Record Group 79.
Quitman County	All 2 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.