Josiah Davis House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Josiah Davis House, south of Canoochee in Emanuel County, Georgia, is a Plantation Plain-style house built in 1869 on a 321 acres (130 ha) property. The property, with six contributing buildings, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article Josiah Davis House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Emanuel County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Davis, Josiah, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. S of Canoochee on GA 192, Canoochee, 30471
When was it listed? October 1982
Category. building
Census division. Twin City
National Register reference number. 82000145 - 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Josiah Davis House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,230 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 32 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	136
Arson/incendiarism	32
Natural	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020EMANUEL013
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-EMANUEL-015
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020EMANUEL012
21 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-EMANUEL-005
15 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-EMANUEL-004
1 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-EMANUEL-014

Every fire recorded in Emanuel County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canoochee, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2014	Hail	Canoochee	$55,000	An Emanuel County fire fighter reported golf ball sized hail.
January 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Canoochee	$50,000	A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 MPH and a maximum path width of 200 yards began along Noonday Church Road in eastern Emanuel County where minor roof damage occurred. The tornado travelled northeast for nearly 5 miles downing numerous trees and destroying a small outbuilding in the Canoochee community. A large metal barn and silo had part of the siding removed along Mt Olivet Church before the tornado ended near Pike Johnson Road. [01/21/17: Tornado #23, County #1/1, EF1, Washington, 2017:024].
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Canoochee	$5,000	The Emanuel County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down from around the intersection of Highway 192 and Canoochee Road in Canoochee to around the intersection of Highway 80 and George L. Smith State Park Road near Twin City.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Canoochee	$3,000	The Emanuel County 911 Center reported that several trees were down in the vicinity of Canoochee-Garfield and Johnson-Hall Roads.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Canoochee	$1,000	Power line down at canoochee rd and canoochee bypass.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Canoochee	$500	The Emanuel county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down, one in Canoochee and one in Summertown.

Every storm recorded in Emanuel 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

4 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
John Rountree Log House	3.2 miles	1997
Twin City Historic District	3.3 miles	2014
Davis-Proctor House	3.4 miles	2010
Albert Neal Durden House	5.1 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000145 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emanuel County	All 9 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.