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Bronwood Calaboose

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Terrell County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. GA 118, Bronwood, 39826
  • When was it listed? June 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Bronwood
  • National Register reference number. 82002483 - 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Bronwood Calaboose between 1992 and 2020, burning about 624 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning72
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking12
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2019Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TERRELL002
5 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TERRELL-002
23 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1995Natural1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Terrell County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronwood, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindBronwood$50,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines with several outages reported in Bronwood and Dawson.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBronwood$20,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Bronwood. The media also reported trees were down on houses. Monetary damage was estimated.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindBronwood$3,000Fallen and leaning trees and limbs resulted in power outages near Bronwood.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBronwood$3,000Several trees were blown down on Highway 118 between Dawson and Bronwood. Media reports indicate that trees were blocking the roadway.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindBronwood-Trees were blown down in Bronwood.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBronwood-Trees were blown down on Highway 118 between Bronwood and Dawson.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBronwood-A tree was blown down near Bronwood.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBronwood-A tree was blown down along Highway 118 near James Webb Road.
June 2007HailBronwood-Quarter size hail was observed in Bronwood.
June 2007HailBronwood-Tennis ball size hail was observed in Bronwood.

Every storm recorded in Terrell 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Martin Elementary School0.3 miles2008
Dawson Historict District6.1 miles1997
Dawson Woman's Clubhouse6.1 miles1982
Terrell County Courthouse6.3 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002483 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Terrell CountyAll 6 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.