Sylvester Mumford House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Sylvester Mumford House was a historic residence in Brantley County, Georgia near Waynesville that was built in c. 1848. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article Sylvester Mumford House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Brantley 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. Mumford, Sylvester, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off U.S. 84, Waynesville, 31566
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. building
Census division. Waynesville
National Register reference number. 82002386 - 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

419 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 419 fires within 5 miles of Sylvester Mumford House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,829 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 108 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	157
Arson/incendiarism	108
Natural	63
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	5

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
8 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRANTLEY021
29 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Natural	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Brantley County

Storms near this property

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waynesville, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning. 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 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$4,000	A couple of pecan trees were blown down near the intersection of Post Road and Chicora Road. One tree fell on a house and the other on a car. The cost of damage was estimated, and there were no injuries reported.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$2,000	A tree and power lines were blown down near Hooterville Diner along U.S. Highway 82. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for Storm Data.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$2,000	Trees were blown down in Waynesville. The cost of damage was estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$500	Wind gusts of 35-40 mph were estimated and caused some power line damage which caused outages in Waynesville. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated so the event could be included in Storm Data.
July 2010	Lightning	Waynesville	$500	The Waycross Journal/Herald reported a lightning fire near Waynesville that burned about a tenth of an acre before fire fighters were able to control the blaze. The cost of property damage was estimated.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$500	Large trees and power lines were blown down along US-82
April 2020	Hail	Waynesville	-	Golf ball size hail was observed near Browntown Road. The time of the event was based on radar.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	A tree was blown down on Highway 82.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	A tree fell on a power line at the intersection of Albert Gibson Road and Browntown Road.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	The Waverly Minit Mart reported a customer saw large trees down and minor damage to a home off of County Road 170.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	Power line poles were blown down in Waynesville.
April 2011	Hail	Waynesville	-	Quarter size hail lasted for 15 minutes. The hail covered the ground and knocked down a lot of tree limbs.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	Trees were blown down between Waynesville and Browntown.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	Trees and power lines were blown down near Browntown Road. The time of the event was based on radar imagery.
March 2005	Lightning	Waynesville	-	no account filed
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Waynesville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brantley 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002386 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brantley 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.
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.