Lavonia Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Lavonia Commercial Historic District in Lavonia, Georgia, is a 16.5-acre (6.7 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article Lavonia Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jones, Augusta, Vickery, Grogan, Bowman Sts., Lavonia, 30553
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. district
Also known as. Lavonia MRA
Census division. Lavonia
National Register reference number. 83000212 - 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

269 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Lavonia Commercial Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 418 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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	161
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Arson/incendiarism	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-FRANKLIN-006
9 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019FRANKLIN001
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN007
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-012
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-FRANKLIN-002
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-010

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lavonia Commercial Historic District: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
	Highway Deposits	Mica	Occurrence
	Weldon Mine	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lavonia, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 21 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	$25,000	no account filed
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	$10,000	County comms reported numerous trees and power lines blown down in the Lavonia area, with one tree down on house.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	$10,000	A tree was blown onto a house, while several other trees were blown across roads. A few powerlines were also blown down.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Tugaloo State Park and in the city of Lavonia. One tree fell on a vehicle.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	$1,000	Three trees were blown down and a carport was damaged.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	$500	A few large trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines and causing an outage in the Gumlog community.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	Public reported multiple trees blown down in the Gumlog and Tugaloo State Park areas.
April 2021	Hail	Lavonia	-	Public reported (via Social Media) quarter size hail in the Gumlog community.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	County comms reported multiple trees down, especially along Poplar Springs Rd in the extreme northeast part of the county.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	Multiple trees were blown down in the area near Gerrard Rd and highway 328.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	Two trees were blown down on highway 328 in the northeast corner of the county.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	A tree was blown down on Rainbow Dr in Lavonia.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	Numerous trees were blown down in extreme northern Franklin County. Affected roads incldued Laurel Circle and Mountain View Rd.
July 2008	Hail	Lavonia	-	Hail was reported near the intersection of Hillshore Rd and Lake View Dr.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	A tree blown down on highway 59 in Lavonia, and another down on Clarks Creek Rd.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	A tree was blown down on Clarks Creek Rd and another was blown down on Stone Bridge Rd.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	Roof blown off of a shed.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	Trees down across several roads in and around Lavonia.
July 2001	Hail	Lavonia	-	Dime-sized hail reported at Interstate 85 exit number 173.
May 2004	Hail	Lavonia	-	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Lavonia	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lavonia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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

6 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
Pure Oil Service Station	0.1 miles	1983
Vickery House	0.1 miles	1983
Jones Street Residential Historic District	0.2 miles	1983
Cason House	0.2 miles	1983
Lavonia Carnegie Library	0.2 miles	1983
West Avenue-Roberts Street Residential Historic District	0.2 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000212 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 43 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.