Built in 1938. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“Chenocetah Fire Tower is a historic fire tower in the Chenocetah Mountains, Cornelia, Habersham County, Georgia, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 11, 1984.”
Wikipedia article Chenocetah Fire Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 37 National Register listings published here for Habersham County · listed in 1984 · category: Structure · built in 1938.
National Register reference number.84001110- 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
224 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Chenocetah Fire Tower
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 502 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 40 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
110
Arson/incendiarism
40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
17
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Railroad operations and maintenance
14
Misuse of fire by a minor
11
Smoking
8
Natural
6
Recreation and ceremony
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Chenocetah Fire Tower: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cornelia, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash 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.
A tornado touched down and destroyed one brick home, three mobile homes, one business and moderately damaged three additional homes. The three homes moderately damaged suffered primarily roof and glass damage. Also, several trees were snapped midway from the crown and numerous power lines were downed from the tornadic winds.
Damage, reported as moderate to major, to 8 buildings, mainly around the Lakeview Heights section between Cornelia and Mt Airy. Numerous trees were either uprooted or had their tops blown out. Several trees fell on homes and power lines.
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.
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.
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